Clock app does not honor timezone

[Jamie Strandboge]

After flashing my nexus 4 yesterday and setting the timezone using:
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# echo "America/Chicago" | sudo tee /etc/timezone
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata

If I launch the clock app, it is not honoring the timezone setting.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Hmm, that's is really weird. The clock app gets the system by, new Date(). So if you change the timezone of the system, it should technically also change the time in the clock app. I will have to find more about this.

[Riccardo Padovani (rpadovani)]

@nik90: yes, the clock app uses Date(), but there are some lines of code like now.setMinutes(now.getMinutes() + diff), where diff is new Date().getTimezoneOffset().

This is useful for other timezone, but it has been included also for local clock. I'm patching it.

[David Planella (dpm)]

Nekhelesh, on the merge proposal you're mentioning that this is pending a design decision. What's the current status on that decision?

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

The design decision has been made which has been detailed at https://docs.google.com/document/d/10f7sU1POjFWc1y1afiV3IynJxDQartyFsXcpexI--7w/edit. The current fix proposed will *not* fix the issue. That said, the fix for this bug is not simple. It will involve reading the /etc/timezone file which in turn requires a c++ qml plugin. I have already coded the plugin but not sure how to integrate it into the clock app since click packages do not support additional c++ qml plugins. On talking to michael hall, he asked me to prioritise the alarm page first. So until then this is on the backburner unless someone can pick it up.

[Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-clock-app at revision 205, scheduled for release in ubuntu-clock-app, milestone final-1.0