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Public bug reported:

Ubuntu 13.10, x86_64, indicator-datetime 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.

indicator-datetime provides *no highlighting at all* for the current
date. Worse, it provides faint highlighting for a different date (the
date I logged in?). See attached screenshot.

This is related to to several other bugs (below), but the other issues
are apx 2 years old and appear to be inactive.

Implications and related UI issues:
- It is too easy for a user to interpret the faint highlighting as today's date.
- If another day has previously been clicked (even days earlier), it remains highlighted. Users will likely expect that the highlighting corresponds to today's date, not that of a click days earlier.
- The lack of a "go to today" button makes it very difficult to focus the date for common use cases (What's today's date? What am I doing today? Tomorrow?)

Related:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793450
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017595
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740817
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240251
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#menu-calendar

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

** Attachment added: "Selection_452.png"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1280874/+attachment/3983095/+files/Selection_452.png

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Title:
  current date not highlighted/wrong date highlighted

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

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 13.10, x86_64, indicator-datetime 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.

  indicator-datetime provides *no highlighting at all* for the current
  date. Worse, it provides faint highlighting for a different date (the
  date I logged in?). See attached screenshot.

  This is related to to several other bugs (below), but the other issues
  are apx 2 years old and appear to be inactive.

  Implications and related UI issues:
  - It is too easy for a user to interpret the faint highlighting as today's date.
  - If another day has previously been clicked (even days earlier), it remains highlighted. Users will likely expect that the highlighting corresponds to today's date, not that of a click days earlier.
  - The lack of a "go to today" button makes it very difficult to focus the date for common use cases (What's today's date? What am I doing today? Tomorrow?)

  Related:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/793450
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017595
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740817
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240251
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#menu-calendar

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