It doesn't seem there's anything particularly special the clock applet or the gnome-panel does on suspend/resume which causes the clock to remain updated.
There's a possibility that the gnome panel is triggering on an event that I'm yet to discover. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/726053 Title: Resuming from suspend should trigger a time update -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs