On Friday 30 March 2018 09:08:54 D. R. Evans wrote:
I'm not sure where to report this:
I have three 24-hour TDE clocks in a panel: one on local time; one on London time; and one on UTC. The London and UTC clocks are reading the same time, but I discovered yesterday that in fact London is already on summer time (and has been for nearly a week, I understand), so the London time should be displaying a number one hour higher than UTC.
I have more info on this now, but still don't know where best to report it.
The additional info is that logging out and logging back in -- which is something I rarely do; I often go weeks without doing so, but I happened to do it today -- "fixed" the problem.
So what appears to happen (this is a guess, but it fits the evidence) is that the clock figures out the time in London at log-in time, and then starts free-running, keeping the same offset between the displayed time and UTC, regardless of subsequent changes to/from summer time that might occur during the logged-in session.
In any case, the fact that the clock is unreliable and can display an incorrect time is obviously a bug, and I would hope that someone can look into the issue. (FWIW, the local clock -- Denver -- quite happily adjusted the time automatically and correctly earlier in the month.)
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