Clock in side bar

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The clock in side bar is neat but is one hour slow and cant change the time.
Time on task bar is right.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong.
Tony
 
You may need to be running as Administrator or anything but a "standard
user" because it's a UAC/UAP setting to change your clock :o)

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Oh, and make sure your time zone is right - as Andre says :o)

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Well you two normally help out but you are both to up on one another.
I have done the time zone thing but still one hour slow
Get with it kids.
Tony
 
Tony:

I found an earlier post by bobb on 5/26/2006, "Although
Vista gives me an option for EDT zone, gadget doesn't: it only has EST, so I
have to choose " Atlantic zone" to get correct time. So I see a
picture of South America on the globe not USA". It was supposed to be
reported. This may cure your time differences.
 
Zack said:
You may need to be running as Administrator or anything but a "standard
user" because it's a UAC/UAP setting to change your clock :o)
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I think he meant the sidebar clock, not the Windows clock. Changing the
sidebar clock should not cause LUA/UAC/UAP to kick in (I hope!!!).
 
You may need to be running as Administrator or anything but a "standard
I think he meant the sidebar clock, not the Windows clock. Changing the
sidebar clock should not cause LUA/UAC/UAP to kick in (I hope!!!).
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Personally, I'd hope for these to be consistent. Both should either work,
or both should be busted. Try explaining the difference to newbies, or your
mother...
 
Homer said:
Personally, I'd hope for these to be consistent. Both should either work,
or both should be busted. Try explaining the difference to newbies, or
your mother...
Click to expand...

The sidebar clock is a display item only - and it lets you put up multiple
clocks showing different time zones. It doesn't affect the clock of the
PC, therefore shouldn't need administrative privileges to manage.
 
I think he meant the sidebar clock, not the Windows clock. Changing the
The sidebar clock is a display item only - and it lets you put up multiple
clocks showing different time zones. It doesn't affect the clock of the
PC, therefore shouldn't need administrative privileges to manage.
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As a developer, I understand the distinction. However, as far as your
average user understands, there's no difference between the clock gadget and
the one that sits in the system tray. In fact, one observation I've heard
was that having both visible on the screen was redundant and a waste of
space... Given this perception, how do you explain, in non-technical terms
to non-technical people, that changing the clock gadget doesn't require
admin rights, while the tray clock does?

That being said, I think the clock gadget should go out of its way to
present three settings to the user (possibly with radio buttons) in simple
terms:

a) keep it synchronized with the systray clock, whatever its settings
are--so whenever you do change the systray clock, the gadget follows
automatically
b) let the user pick a timezone; the clock automatically figures out the
correct time to show based on that
c) completely free-form


Of course, having option A available implies that if the user wants to
change the gadget's time, you then need the appropriate rights, just like
the tray clock...

I dunno...it's just that in its current state, if someone change the gadget
time, he's left wondering why his settings don't "stick"...
 
You only need admin rights on the system tray clock to actually change the
time and date, not to view the details or change the time zone. You can't
change the time and date with the Sidebar clock. Hence no confusion :)

Given this perception, how do you explain, in non-technical terms
 
Homer said:
That being said, I think the clock gadget should go out of its way to
present three settings to the user (possibly with radio buttons) in simple
terms:

a) keep it synchronized with the systray clock, whatever its settings
are--so whenever you do change the systray clock, the gadget follows
automatically
b) let the user pick a timezone; the clock automatically figures out the
correct time to show based on that
c) completely free-form


Of course, having option A available implies that if the user wants to
change the gadget's time, you then need the appropriate rights, just like
the tray clock...

I dunno...it's just that in its current state, if someone change the
gadget time, he's left wondering why his settings don't "stick"...
Click to expand...

You can't change the time for the sidebar clock - only pick another time
zone to display.

But I see your point about it being a potential source of confusion.
 
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