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Bug#230173: marked as done (/usr/X11R6/bin/xclock: It's behind the time, on average.)

Your message dated Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:58:26 +0000
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has caused the Debian Bug report #230173,
regarding /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock: It's behind the time, on average.
to be marked as done.

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Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.2.1-12.1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock

When xclock updates the display, it updates to the current
time.   Then it waits (for 1 minute, by default).
At the end of the minute, xclock is 1 minute slow.

Thus, on average, xclock is 30 seconds behind the times.

If xclock updated the time so that it was half of the update
interval *ahead* of real time, then at the end of the
interval it would be only 30s slow,
and it would be correct, on average.

I noticed this at midnight, on New Year's.
Looked like a bloody fool, when the big high-tech
computer clock was still reading 11:59, while everyone
was making noise and toasting.

Also, these days, we can probably afford the CPU cycles
to update the xclock face more often, say once every 10 seconds,
by default.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux gpk 2.4.23 #2 Sun Dec 7 11:46:58 GMT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii  cpp-3.2                   1:3.2.3-9      The GNU C preprocessor
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-10   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdps1                   4.2.1-12.1     Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii  libfreetype6              2.1.7-1.1      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20030719-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libxaw7                   4.2.1-12.1     X Athena widget set library
ii  xlibmesa3-gl [libgl1]     4.2.1-12.1     Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii  xlibmesa3-glu [libglu1]   4.2.1-12.1     Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree
ii  xlibs                     4.2.1-12.1     X Window System client libraries

-- no debconf information

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Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it was tagged "wontfix" for some
years, without answer. If you have new reasons to point out this
problem, please feel free to re-open it.

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