Public bug reported: Standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and during DST change.
Steps to reproduce: 1. Install Timer from Store: https://uappexplorer.com/app/timer.mivoligo 2. Set timer to 5 minutes 3. Open Clock app. Look for alarm, and notice that alarm is correctly set 3. Switch to System Settings -> Time & Date -> Time zone: 4. Change Time zone to something different (eg. New York). (Or wait for DST change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time) Expected behaviour: - timer ringing as expected after timezone/DST change Current behaviour: - alarm is not ringing. (you could check active alarms in "Ubuntu Clock app) Proposal solution: - introduce new type of alarms, which is based on UTC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time) and independent from time zones. ** Affects: timer Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: ubuntu-clock-app (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: Standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and during DST change. Steps to reproduce: 1. Install Timer from Store: https://uappexplorer.com/app/timer.mivoligo 2. Set timer to 5 minutes 3. Open Clock app. Look for alarm, and notice that alarm is correctly set 3. Switch to System Settings -> Time & Date -> Time zone: 4. Change Time zone to something different (eg. New York). (Or wait for DST change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time) - Expected behaviour: - timer ringing as expected after timezone/DST change Current behaviour: - alarm is not ringing. (you could check active alarms in "Ubuntu Clock app) + + Proposal solution: + - introduce new type of alarms, which is based on UTC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time) and independent from time zones. ** Summary changed: - Standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and during DST change + Standard alarms will not work correctly for Timers, after timezone/DST change ** Also affects: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ubuntu-clock-app (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to indicator-datetime in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1512180 Title: Standard alarms will not work correctly for Timers, after timezone/DST change Status in Timer: New Status in indicator-datetime package in Ubuntu: New Status in ubuntu-clock-app package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and during DST change. Steps to reproduce: 1. Install Timer from Store: https://uappexplorer.com/app/timer.mivoligo 2. Set timer to 5 minutes 3. Open Clock app. Look for alarm, and notice that alarm is correctly set 3. Switch to System Settings -> Time & Date -> Time zone: 4. Change Time zone to something different (eg. New York). (Or wait for DST change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time) Expected behaviour: - timer ringing as expected after timezone/DST change Current behaviour: - alarm is not ringing. (you could check active alarms in "Ubuntu Clock app) Proposal solution: - introduce new type of alarms, which is based on UTC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time) and independent from time zones. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/timer/+bug/1512180/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
