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Alex
Asked: 2022-03-23 23:06:49 +0800 CST

How to fix this gnome clock?

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In order to show different time zones on my ubuntu desktop (Ubuntu 20.04.4) I installed gnome clocks, but after some while this is what I see:

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I really don't need to see my current time zone three times. When I first started the app it looked on, the current time zone was shown only once. But then after time (like 10 minutes), the current timezone was duplicated. I cannot remove them.

Is there a fix to this problem, or exists a very similar app to just easily show one different time zone?

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1 Answers

  1. To properly show two timezones in an app you can use python and tkinter. Here is an example where you have to define the timezone in the code:

    # importing whole module
from tkinter import *
from tkinter.ttk import *

# importing strftime function to
# retrieve system's time
from time import strftime
from datetime import datetime
from pytz import timezone    

tokyo = timezone("Asia/Tokyo")

# creating tkinter window
root = Tk()
root.title('Clock')

# This function is used to
# display time on the label
def time():
    local_str = strftime('%H:%M:%S')
    tokyo_time = datetime.now(tokyo)
    tokyo_str = tokyo_time.strftime('%H:%M:%S')
    lbl.config(text = "Local  " + local_str + "\nTokyo  " + tokyo_str)
    lbl.after(1000, time)

# Styling the label widget so that clock
# will look more attractive
lbl = Label(root, font = ('calibri', 40, 'bold'),
            background = 'purple',
            foreground = 'white',
            justify = RIGHT)

# Placing clock at the centre
# of the tkinter window
lbl.pack(anchor = 'center')
time()

mainloop()

    When you run this short code, you will get a GUI as follows

    enter image description here

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