timeclock gives incorrect time in mode-line

timeclock gives incorrect time in mode-line

[Colin Baxter]

Hello,

I have my timeclock workday set to 12 hours by means of

(setq timeclock-workday (* 12 60 60))

This works fine in emacs-27.2 and correctly displays the remaining time
in the mode-line.

This appears not to be the case for emacs-28.0.50, which insists on
assuming the workday to be the default 8 hours when displaying the
remaining time in the mode-line.

The differences between the timeclock.el files for 27.2 and 28.0.50
seem pretty minimal and I don't see why the latter should ignore my
setting for timeclock-workday. I have checked the variable via C-h v
timeclock-workday <RET> in emacs-28.0.50 and it does indeed give the
value I set, namely 43200 (with the original value as 28800).

I'd be grateful for suggestions as to what to look for in locating the
problem.

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter.

Re: timeclock gives incorrect time in mode-line

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

    > Hello, I have my timeclock workday set to 12 hours by means of

    > (setq timeclock-workday (* 12 60 60))

    > This works fine in emacs-27.2 and correctly displays the remaining
    > time in the mode-line.

    > This appears not to be the case for emacs-28.0.50, which insists
    > on assuming the workday to be the default 8 hours when displaying
    > the remaining time in the mode-line.

    > The differences between the timeclock.el files for 27.2 and
    > 28.0.50 seem pretty minimal and I don't see why the latter should
    > ignore my setting for timeclock-workday. I have checked the
    > variable via C-h v timeclock-workday <RET> in emacs-28.0.50 and it
    > does indeed give the value I set, namely 43200 (with the original
    > value as 28800).

The issue seems to be with the setting

(timeclock-mode-line-display 1)

in my ~/.emacs. If I comment out that setting and allow emacs-28.0.50 to
display the remaining time by doing M-x timeclock-mode-line-display
<RET> then the remaining time is displayed correctly.

Re: timeclock gives incorrect time in mode-line

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
    >> Hello, I have my timeclock workday set to 12 hours by means of

    >> (setq timeclock-workday (* 12 60 60))

    >> This works fine in emacs-27.2 and correctly displays the
    >> remaining time in the mode-line.

    >> This appears not to be the case for emacs-28.0.50, which insists
    >> on assuming the workday to be the default 8 hours when displaying
    >> the remaining time in the mode-line.

    >> The differences between the timeclock.el files for 27.2 and
    >> 28.0.50 seem pretty minimal and I don't see why the latter should
    >> ignore my setting for timeclock-workday. I have checked the
    >> variable via C-h v timeclock-workday <RET> in emacs-28.0.50 and
    >> it does indeed give the value I set, namely 43200 (with the
    >> original value as 28800).

    > The issue seems to be with the setting

    > (timeclock-mode-line-display 1)

    > in my ~/.emacs. If I comment out that setting and allow
    > emacs-28.0.50 to display the remaining time by doing M-x
    > timeclock-mode-line-display <RET> then the remaining time is
    > displayed correctly.

It seems to be the case with emacs-28.0.50 that the setting
(timeclock-mode-line-display 1) must come after any setting of the
timeclock-workday in ~/.emacs. If this is done then all seems to work as
before.

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter.

Re: timeclock gives incorrect time in mode-line

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

> It seems to be the case with emacs-28.0.50 that the setting
> (timeclock-mode-line-display 1) must come after any setting of the
> timeclock-workday in ~/.emacs. If this is done then all seems to work as
> before.

I've tried various variations of this recipe, but I'm not sure what I'm
looking for here (having never used timeclock-mode-line-display before).

Can you open a bug report that includes a recipe, starting from "emacs
-Q", for how to reproduce the problem?

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