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[Bartosz Kosiorek <1512180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and
during DST change.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Timer from Store: https://uappexplorer.com/app/timer.mivoligo
2. Set timer to 5 minutes
3. Open Clock app. Look for alarm, and notice that alarm is correctly set
3. Switch to System Settings -> Time & Date -> Time zone:
4.  Change Time zone to something different (eg. New York). (Or wait for DST change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time)

Expected behaviour:
- timer ringing as expected after timezone/DST change

Current behaviour:
- alarm is not ringing. (you could check active alarms in "Ubuntu Clock app)

Proposal solution:
- introduce new type of alarms, which is based on UTC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time) and independent from time zones.

** Affects: timer
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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

** Affects: ubuntu-clock-app (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  Standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and
  during DST change.
  
  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Install Timer from Store: https://uappexplorer.com/app/timer.mivoligo
  2. Set timer to 5 minutes
  3. Open Clock app. Look for alarm, and notice that alarm is correctly set
  3. Switch to System Settings -> Time & Date -> Time zone:
  4.  Change Time zone to something different (eg. New York). (Or wait for DST change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time)
  
- 
  Expected behaviour:
  - timer ringing as expected after timezone/DST change
  
  Current behaviour:
  - alarm is not ringing. (you could check active alarms in "Ubuntu Clock app)
+ 
+ Proposal solution:
+ - introduce new type of alarms, which is based on UTC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time) and independent from time zones.

** Summary changed:

- Standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and during DST change
+ Standard alarms will not work correctly for Timers, after timezone/DST change

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

** Also affects: ubuntu-clock-app (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Standard alarms will not work correctly for Timers, after timezone/DST
  change

Status in Timer:
  New
Status in indicator-datetime package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubuntu-clock-app package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and
  during DST change.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Install Timer from Store: https://uappexplorer.com/app/timer.mivoligo
  2. Set timer to 5 minutes
  3. Open Clock app. Look for alarm, and notice that alarm is correctly set
  3. Switch to System Settings -> Time & Date -> Time zone:
  4.  Change Time zone to something different (eg. New York). (Or wait for DST change: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time)

  Expected behaviour:
  - timer ringing as expected after timezone/DST change

  Current behaviour:
  - alarm is not ringing. (you could check active alarms in "Ubuntu Clock app)

  Proposal solution:
  - introduce new type of alarms, which is based on UTC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time) and independent from time zones.

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