the clock on the panel stopped runing.
Just a cautionary tale,
That’s really quite strange…
But yes, you’ve managed to create several kinds of broken into your panel clock there - the time mismatch is something I’ve never seen and is likely a plasmashell crash or hang.
Do you run X11 or Wayland?
Interestingly I never managed to give up wearing watches - after losing a Citizen watch after just 9 months (metal bracelet, a pin must have come out when I was out on the bike…) I picked up a cheap Casio Tough Solar, which has put the time visible on my left wrist for the last 8 years already…
What’s interesting is the way people say ‘I don’t need a watch because I have a phone…’ but they’re the same people that will glance over at my watch or ask me the time so that they don’t have to bother doing fancy wrist twitches to wake up their ‘SMART’ watches (which also require constant charging) or grabbing their phones to look at the time…
However, for future reference:
- Wearing a watch means the time is always visible on your wrist
- Having a smartphone means you can always tell it to ‘countdown 20 minutes’ or ‘set an alarm for 8.30 pm’.
I think indeed plasma crashed and restarted sometime earlier, prob the time that it was stuck at.
It is kindof a design flaw if restarting after a crash is incomplete. What if I was monitoring something super important but notification were no longer procesed? (Andromeda Strain (1971) queue here).
Cautionary tale: dont trust the Panel’s clock if commuting and living and working in Switzerland, in Germany you’d be ok.
Ok, so move to Wayland - hopefully we won’t have the same buggy ecosystem developing as we did with Xorg.
The best watch I ever had was a $2.00 solar digital watch from a street vendor in Thailand. I accidentally wore it diving to 30m on more than one occasion and it didn’t miss a beat. It kept going for 15 years until I lost it somewhere. Best $2.00 I ever spent.
If this was under Xorg, the panel could somehow be invisible, the buffer was never updated, and what you’re seeing could be what was last shown on the screen…