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[Charles Kerr <charles.kerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: indicator-datetime
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: indicator-datetime
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Changed in: indicator-datetime
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Charles Kerr (charlesk)

** Changed in: indicator-datetime
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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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 The Date and Time Indicator:
  Fix Committed
Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “indicator-datetime” source package in Saucy:
  In Progress

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.

  [Impact]
   * Battery drain, wasting energy by a lot of unnecessary polling

  [Test Case]
   * Observe how often /etc/localtime or /etc/writable/localtime gets opened for reading

  [Regression Potential]
   * Possibility to not get the local time reliably

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