Cinnamon calendar applet prevents time from being changed in system settings

[Friedemann Becker]

Linux Mint 17 Qiana Cinnamon
Cinnamon 2.2.13

Reproduce

 - right click your date applet in the system tray and do "configure"
 - check "use a custom date format" and put in "%a, %e. %B %k:%M:%S", or something else containing %S for seconds display
 - left click date applet and then click "date and time settings"
 - unlock with root password
 - turn off network time
 - try to change the time, for example click two times on the down arrow below the hour part of the time
 - your change will be undone after max one second, that is when the date applet displays the new time

or

 - don't use a custom date format, jump to step 3 directly
 - and click "display seconds", works the same way

Workaround

 - turn off "display seconds" or uncheck "use a custom date format"
 - change the time
 - turn on the same option again

It seems, that the changes you make to the time are applied after two or three seconds. That's about the time it takes to have the new time displayed in the systray, when you have no seconds option active. So it's losing the race to the clock, when it's ticking in seconds.

Not very serious bug, but strange though.

[Michael Webster (miketwebster)]

Fixed: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-control-center/commit/e7d70945d4dc2d2b32b1bda5211806610ad33a0e

[Vlad Orlov (monsta)]

Fixed in cinnamon-control-center 2.2.10.