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[Colin King <1238043@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

In an attempt to reduce unnecessary frequent periodic file access to
save power, I noticed that indicator-datetime-service is opening and
closing /etc/localtime every 5 seconds on my desktop and not apparently
reading this file.   On the ubuntu phone it is doing the same thing with
/etc/writable/localtime.

This seems a little excessive, especially because the TZ data doesn't
change quite that frequently.  It would be useful if this excessive
polling on the file could be reduced if possible.

** Affects: indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: mobile-power-consumption

** Tags added: mobile-power-consumption

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238043

Title:
  indicator-datetime-service is opening /etc/localtime every 5 seconds
  even on a totally "idle" system

Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In an attempt to reduce unnecessary frequent periodic file access to
  save power, I noticed that indicator-datetime-service is opening and
  closing /etc/localtime every 5 seconds on my desktop and not
  apparently reading this file.   On the ubuntu phone it is doing the
  same thing with /etc/writable/localtime.

  This seems a little excessive, especially because the TZ data doesn't
  change quite that frequently.  It would be useful if this excessive
  polling on the file could be reduced if possible.

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