clock applet jumps in time when set to display seconds

[Holstener Liesel]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Ubuntu 9.04 (i386)
gnome-panel 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu7
Clock applet 2.26.0

When set to include seconds in its time display, the panel clock sometimes misses a second, then remains longer on the next one, or first remains longer on one number, then misses the next one. This seems to happen with time set by a server as well as manually.

I will gladly provide some more information if someone will give me a hint as to where I should look for it.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Holstener Liesel (holstenerliesel)]

I know no other way to reproduce this problem than just switching on the applet's 'display seconds' option. It then occurs quite reliably 1 to 4 times almost every minute on my system, no matter what other preferences I set.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

to be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having the issue

[Jan Nekvasil (jan-nekvasil)]

Confirmed on current Jaunty, forwarded upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585668

[Jonathon Hodges (jonblondie)]

Here's a screen grab of it stuttering.

Jonathon

[DimeDroll (dimdroll)]

same here.

[DimeDroll (dimdroll)]

Ubuntu 10.04.
Linux ubuntu 2.6.34 #1 SMP Mon May 17 17:31:35 EEST 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Gnome panel skips seconds

[Aryeh Gregor (simetrical+launchpad)]

I submitted a one-line patch to the upstream bug at <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585668>. Just change

        timeouttime = (G_USEC_PER_SEC - tv.tv_usec)/1000+1;

to

        timeouttime = (G_USEC_PER_SEC - tv.tv_usec)/1000+20;

in applets/clock/clock.c. Not such an elegant solution, but it works for me.