9.3 KDE Clock Changing Timezone on its own?
Anyone seen a problem with the Timezone changing mysteriously on its own under 9.3? I'm talking about the KDE Clock's timezone setting. Mine mysteriously started displaying the London timezone, I have no idea why it changed from local to London. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
Scott, On Sunday 24 April 2005 17:08, Scott Leighton wrote:
Anyone seen a problem with the Timezone changing mysteriously on its own under 9.3? I'm talking about the KDE Clock's timezone setting.
Mine mysteriously started displaying the London timezone, I have no idea why it changed from local to London.
This just came up in the last day or two. I've seen that phenomenon, too. It was suggested to me by Tom J Owens when I asked about the possible cause that it is happening because I'm inadvertently activating the mouse wheel while the pointer is over the the clock portion of the panel (anywhere within the clock, not just over the date display). That's as good a hypothesis as any. It was also nice to know of yet another overload user interface function...
Scott
Randall Schulz
On Sunday 24 April 2005 5:15 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Scott,
On Sunday 24 April 2005 17:08, Scott Leighton wrote:
Anyone seen a problem with the Timezone changing mysteriously on its own under 9.3? I'm talking about the KDE Clock's timezone setting.
Mine mysteriously started displaying the London timezone, I have no idea why it changed from local to London.
This just came up in the last day or two.
I've seen that phenomenon, too. It was suggested to me by Tom J Owens when I asked about the possible cause that it is happening because I'm inadvertently activating the mouse wheel while the pointer is over the the clock portion of the panel (anywhere within the clock, not just over the date display).
That's as good a hypothesis as any. It was also nice to know of yet another overload user interface function...
Scott
Randall Schulz
Ahh, that actually makes sense, I can understand how I might have scrolled the wheel. Just experimenting a bit shows how easy it is to mistakenly do that. Guess I'll have to be more aware of exactly where the cursor is on the display before scrolling that wheel. Thanks for the explanation, it was bugging me not to know why it was changing <g>. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
Randall R Schulz wrote:
because I'm inadvertently activating the mouse wheel while the pointer is over the the clock portion of the panel (anywhere within the clock, not just over the date display).
That's as good a hypothesis as any. It was also nice to know of yet another overload user interface function...
No it's not ;). I'm in Asia, and it allows me to quickly check the time in different countries/continents, esp. the time in England. You know, Premiership :D Rgds, Verdi -- +++ GMX - Die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More +++ 1 GB Mailbox bereits in GMX FreeMail http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail
Verdi, On Sunday 24 April 2005 18:21, Verdi March wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
because I'm inadvertently activating the mouse wheel while the pointer is over the the clock portion of the panel (anywhere within the clock, not just over the date display).
That's as good a hypothesis as any. It was also nice to know of yet another overloaded user interface function...
No it's not ;). I'm in Asia, and it allows me to quickly check the time in different countries/continents, esp. the time in England. You know, Premiership :D
It's not what? "Overloaded" is a term of art, meaning a given thing, in this case the scroll wheel, is assigned multiple functions. Conversely, a given function, adjusting the time zone, is assigned multiple forms of manipulation, this case the mouse wheel and a dialog.
Verdi
Randall Schulz
Hello, Randall R Schulz wrote:
It's not what? "Overloaded" is a term of art, meaning a given thing, in this case the scroll wheel, is assigned multiple functions. Conversely, a given function, adjusting the time zone, is assigned multiple forms of manipulation, this case the mouse wheel and a dialog.
I'm quite pragmatic on this case, but perhaps because it suits to my need. I consider the scrolling equivalent to a shortcut. Yes, the main way to change the timezone is through menus. But people, like me, the shortcut is handy because I change timezone quite frequently, and only for a short interval. After I glance at the time difference, and immediately switch back to my local timezone. Well, you can say that I'm too lazy to memorize the time difference. But this is what computer/technology suppose to do, to make our life more convenience. This is similar when HP was not invented yet, we used to memorize all the phone numbers. Now, we rely on mobile phone's phonebook and rarely memorize all the numbers anymore. Rgds, Verdi -- +++ NEU: GMX DSL_Flatrate! Schon ab 14,99 EUR/Monat! +++ GMX Garantie: Surfen ohne Tempo-Limit! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
Verdi, On Sunday 24 April 2005 19:53, Verdi March wrote:
Hello,
Randall R Schulz wrote:
It's not what? "Overloaded" is a term of art, meaning a given thing, in this case the scroll wheel, is assigned multiple functions. Conversely, a given function, adjusting the time zone, is assigned multiple forms of manipulation, this case the mouse wheel and a dialog.
I'm quite pragmatic on this case, but perhaps because it suits to my need. I consider the scrolling equivalent to a shortcut.
Yes, the main way to change the timezone is through menus. But people, like me, the shortcut is handy because I change timezone quite frequently, and only for a short interval. After I glance at the time difference, and immediately switch back to my local timezone.
Well, you can say that I'm too lazy to memorize the time difference. But this is what computer/technology suppose to do, to make our life more convenience. This is similar when HP was not invented yet, we used to memorize all the phone numbers. Now, we rely on mobile phone's phonebook and rarely memorize all the numbers anymore.
I fail to see why you're being so defensive. I was never criticizing the interface designer's decision to use the scroll wheel to adjust the time zone. Nor was I calling you lazy! Relax, already.
Verdi
Randall Schulz
Hello, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I fail to see why you're being so defensive.
I was never criticizing the interface designer's decision to use the scroll wheel to adjust the time zone. Nor was I calling you lazy!
Relax, already.
Sorry Randall, if my post give such an impression, I really didn't mean that. Think I'll be more careful in my next postings :). Rgds, Verdi -- +++ GMX - Die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More +++ 1 GB Mailbox bereits in GMX FreeMail http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail
On Monday 25 April 2005 03:08, Scott Leighton wrote:
Anyone seen a problem with the Timezone changing mysteriously on its own under 9.3? I'm talking about the KDE Clock's timezone setting.
Yes, it happens to me too (9.1 with KDE 3.4). -- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org
On 4/25/05, NSK
On Monday 25 April 2005 03:08, Scott Leighton wrote:
Anyone seen a problem with the Timezone changing mysteriously on its own under 9.3? I'm talking about the KDE Clock's timezone setting.
Yes, it happens to me too (9.1 with KDE 3.4).
-- NSK http://portal.wikinerds.org
Hmmm, this happened to my SuSE 9.2 tin the other day. I had sat my oldest daughter down and opened up OOo so that she could work on her CV. When I came back I noticed the time was wrong, then I spotted why. It was on the wrong time zone. Now it's possible that she had inadvertantly changed it by scrolling while the cursor was over it. But it's not happened before to me and I'm terrible for having twitchy scroll fingers. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR
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