Confirming. The only way to recover is to edit the gconf key to something other than `unix'.
** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Panels flicker and crash when clock preference changed to unix time https://launchpad.net/bugs/91059 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs