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[Bartosz Kosiorek <1427566@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  I'm greatly missing timers from the clock app. In Android I use them all
  the time for fixed time periods (laundry/bread/cooking/tea is ready,
  etc.), and it's rather inconvenient to have to create a gazillion alarms
  at a fixed time for these.
  
- Using standard alarm has several disadvantages:
+ Using standard alarm has several disadvantages (noticed in https://uappexplorer.com/app/timer.mivoligo timer application):
  - indicator-datetime doesn't check seconds for alarms (lp: #1480200)
  - Timer's alarms are visible in the core clock app. (lp: #1494229)
  - standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and during DST change
- 
- 
- -- Additional feature request,
- I have a UX request when setting the timer. In addition to setting the time remaining until it expires (as you'd expect), I'd like to also switch to the ability to setting the clock time that I want it to expire. This would be very similar to setting an alarm of course, but the alarm setting UI is geared towards persistent alarms, not ephemeral ones.
- 
- Example use case: there's a one-off thing I need to do at 2pm. I could
- set an alarm for 2pm by adding a new alarm, and then going in and
- deleting the alarm after it has rung but this is tedious. Alternatively
- I could calculate the time until 2pm myself and then quickly set a timer
- for that length of time. This way there is no alarm to delete after it
- has expired. I'd like to just go to the timer section and add a timer to
- ring at 2pm by toggling to an "ETA" display instead of "time remaining"
- and setting it from there.

** Description changed:

- I'm greatly missing timers from the clock app. In Android I use them all
- the time for fixed time periods (laundry/bread/cooking/tea is ready,
- etc.), and it's rather inconvenient to have to create a gazillion alarms
- at a fixed time for these.
+ It is hard to implement Timer application, by using standard alarms. 
+ Example of application: https://uappexplorer.com/app/timer.mivoligo
  
- Using standard alarm has several disadvantages (noticed in https://uappexplorer.com/app/timer.mivoligo timer application):
+ Using standard alarm has several disadvantages:
  - indicator-datetime doesn't check seconds for alarms (lp: #1480200)
  - Timer's alarms are visible in the core clock app. (lp: #1494229)
- - standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and during DST change
+ - standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and during DST change (lp: #1512180)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1427566

Title:
  [Clock][UX] Add timers functionality

Status in Indicator Date and Time:
  New
Status in Timer:
  New
Status in ubuntu-application-lifecycle:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Clock App:
  Incomplete
Status in Ubuntu UX:
  Triaged
Status in indicator-datetime package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  It is hard to implement Timer application, by using standard alarms. 
  Example of application: https://uappexplorer.com/app/timer.mivoligo

  Using standard alarm has several disadvantages:
  - indicator-datetime doesn't check seconds for alarms (lp: #1480200)
  - Timer's alarms are visible in the core clock app. (lp: #1494229)
  - standard alarms will not work correctly after changing timezone and during DST change (lp: #1512180)

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