[SOLVED] Wrong Year Displayed in Clock

[JmaCWQ]

Hello All,

Started up MX-18 this morning & noticed the Clock seems to be a year ahead of itself, showing 2019 instead of 2018.
When clicked the calendar still shows 2018.
Logout, restart doesn't fix it

calendar wrong.png

[Gordon Cooper]

Orage clock is correct here.

[BitJam]

I'm not certain but IIRC there is a strange problem with orage and timezones. There is a system-wide timezone setting that IMO is the only one that should be used although it requires root privileges. Then orage has a separate timezone setting for each user. Perhaps this or something like it is causing the problem.

@JmaCWQ, you can probably check this by running the "date" command in a terminal window. If that gives the correct answer then the problem probably lies in some orage settings. If there is an orage config file maybe you could try deleting it (or safer: rename it) and see if that fixes the problem.

[JmaCWQ]

Thanks for the replies.
Timezone is Australia/Brisbane.
Running date in Terminal shows correctly:

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$ date
Mon 31 Dec 16:42:57 AEST 2018

Both the Xfce panel clock (OP image) & the Date/Time plugin's clock show this error, not sure about Orage, it's panel clock seems to ignore any strftime changes I make in line 1 or the tooltip line in it's properties, and it's default tooltip shows 'Monday 31 December 2018/01', which is the wrong week number.
If I change either of those lines & click Close it ignores the changes & when properties is opened again they show unchanged from default.
In ~/.config/orage there's a file oragerc, renaming or deleting it does nothing after logging out & back in again.

But anyway, I'll be sticking with the Xfce panel clock and I'm not bothered by it displaying the new year a day early, thought it was maybe an issue affecting others also.
Will see what happens after midnight if it stays at 2019 or changes to 2020

[fehlix]

Will see what happens after midnight if it stays at 2019 or changes to 2020

I't will happen again. Nothing to worrie about, B/c it's just a definition issue of what you are going to display:
Have a look at this:

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date +'Date   %%d.%%m.%%Y  %d.%m.%Y:'
date +'ISO-Year/week (01..53 - mon-sun) %%G %%V: %G %V'
date +'normal Year/Week (0..53 sun-sat) %%Y %%U: %Y %U '
date +'normal Year/Week (0..53 mon-sun) %%Y %%W: %Y %W '

which shows me:

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Date   %d.%m.%Y  31.12.2018:
ISO-Year/week (01..53 - mon-sun) %G %V: 2019 01
normal Year/Week (0..53 sun-sat) %Y %U: 2018 52 
normal Year/Week (0..53 mon-sun) %Y %W: 2018 53 

So the display-string you are using, is showing ISO-Year and the ISO-week.
And confusingly together the normal year combined with the ISO-week.

[manyroads]

Shoot, I thought it was like me... I catch up with year number sometime around June each year.

Happy New Year, whatever the number.

[JmaCWQ]

The year displayed stayed at 2019 after midnight by the looks of things, it must have just decided it wanted to switch to 2019 a little early to avoid the hangover or something....or the more logical answer, it was because I mistakenly used %G instead of %Y to display the year

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%A %n %B %d, %G

The combination I was using, which gives the display as pictured in the first post:

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%A   locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%n   a newline
%B   locale's full month name (e.g., January)
%d   day of month (e.g, 01)
%G   year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V

Which I've changed to:

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%A %n %B %d, %Y

Now I just have to wait a year to see if the change brings the desired results

[Eadwine Rose]

The year displayed stayed at 2019 after midnight by the looks of things, it must have just decided it wanted to switch to 2019 a little early to avoid the hangover or something....or the more logical answer, it was because I mistakenly used %G instead of %Y to display the year

Not on topic, but this bit tickled my funny bone heheh.

I was wondering what would happen to that year. :)

[JmaCWQ]

Not on topic, but this bit tickled my funny bone heheh.

I was wondering what would happen to that year. :)

A day without laughter is a day wasted - Charlie Chaplin

[tascoast]

Could be the 'Happy New Year 2018!' bug that hit Sydney
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-01/ ... e/10676974