Notices

Did you compare it with the behavoir of the stock clock? As you say the N900 shows a wrong time systemwide, I do not see a relation with the worldclock right now.

With stock worldclock seems to be the same. What can it be caused by?

I actually meant have the possibly to select another timezone as UTC.

Not change all the timezone times to UTC over GMT.

Example

Local time 12:00 GMT +1
Brisbane 21:00 GMT +1
UTC 11:00 GMT -1

I don't understand what you mean. UTC is just (to put it simple) the more modern name for GMT.

Not exactly.
I know on a basic level they are the same, but they are calculated completely different, that is not an issue.

Scenario

If I want to put a timestamp on something like a website it is normally done in UTC.

If in London you are on DST (aka GMT +1), I have to remember to minus an hour to my time.
If not on DST, I have to remember not to minus an hour off my time.

Can a timezone be created that will always show GMT/UTC and never be altered by DST.

I suppose thinking about it a work around could be to have Iceland in my World Clock as they stay UTC all year.

Still I was imaging a option in the "World Clock" menu "Show UTC"

Does this make any sense, now?



Edit...
Just realised I confused you with my table.

I meant

Local time 12:00 (GMT +1)
Brisbane 21:00 (GMT +10)
UTC 11:00 (GMT)

I get your point...
Will see if and how I do something with this

+1 for UTC as selectable timezone, it saves many round-trips to google for calculating UTC

/Estel

Changes as a result of the latest discussions:

• Repeating alarms will show there full daynames in the new alarm dialog when an alarm is set to repeat for one or two days. For more than 2 days, it will use abbreviations. Looks like the stock clock switches to abbreviations after 3 days, but that will give space issues in portrait mode (which the stock clock does not have to worry about )
• The main page should use the systemfont ones again. Please check if the three icons in the main screen do align well over the default background, if used (the blue glow effect surrounding the icons, it looks okay in my case with my fonts)
• The date/time dialog now pops up after a long press on the local time in the worldclock screen. Note that the stock clock needs a short press, a small difference
• Introduced GMT/UTC as a separate timezone, which can be chosen from the list of cities. It comes with a small warning: I created a new city id for this, which is unknown to older versions of the replacement clock. So if you set this "new" timezone in your worldclock list and later revert to on older version of the replacement clock, then this version will crash on startup, because it does not know the id. Chances are very small this situation will arise, and can be solved by manually removing the number 999 from the city list in /home/user/.config/worldclock/worldclock.conf

Please report if bugs are encountered.
Download in first post is updated with a new version.

Thanks for the update.

All fixes/additions work at first look except one .. the fonts.
I now have a completely different font, I have never used.
It's not Nokia Sans and it's not my system font eithier (Ubuntu)

Also I have been pressing the image button trying to work out what it does.
After a while I realised it's the clocks wallpaper image but it only works on restart.
Do you think a hildon banner "will be applied on application restart" or the like would be useful?

Finally it may possibly be my font but in the "world clocks" if the timezone is plus two digits (GMT +10) the first letter of the Day is chopped off.
I am guessing there's not much room due to having the year in the date.

I thought I used the same code as before for the fonts, but apparently something is different then. I will investigate it. Maybe is due to a change in a QT Creator form after all.

Had the same idea about using a banner to inform about a restart to take effect, but it should be a message in the local language, like the rest. This is somewhat of a hurdle.

I do lose the dayname only if I select a GMT -10:30 timezone (in landscape mode). It may be due to the font, but also in dutch, the abbreviation is only two letters, not three like in your case.
I could remove the year to make room, but on the other hand I do like the added year. For space sake, I already remove the century digits.

How about I remove the year in landscape and only show it in portrait? I think the code change for that is not too big. The landscape notation would resemble the stock clock one, and the portrait mode (which has more space for this) would add something extra in this case.