EL time applet

Failure to get time due to Trinity source being obsolete

Bug #1911189 reported by apienk
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Bug Description

The time shown is wrong because http://trinity.el-bots.zapto.org/eltime.php source has not been updated since January 12, 2018. The function get_from_trinity_bot() does not check if the time is right, thus reporting success. As a result, the fallback function get_from_web() is never called. It wouldn't be anyway because it is commented out in code.

A simple workaround I used was to comment get_from_trinity_bot() and uncomment get_from_web() in lines 215-216.

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apienk (andrzej-pienkowski) wrote :

Actually, it does not work either since the CEL time source is wrong as well. It seems Mercator remains the only up-to-date time source but the time itself must be calculated from the Mercator's last announcement.

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Paul Broadhead (pjbroad) wrote :

Yep, I need to remove the old time sources. Currently, it tries Mercator and falls back to trinity. It use to fall back to the static web pages but those stopped working ages ago (hence the commenting out). But even Mercator goes down a lot now unfortunately. I started working on a proxy to buffer the indicator from outages and allow use of my own time source eventually. I'll continue on that soon I hope.

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