I've run into another strange Fluxbox quirk on Ubuntu MATE v. 18.04.2 LTS..

The clock in task bar does not keep time (the date, though, seems to be--er--up-to-date).

When I do the "date" command in a terminal, the correct time is displayed. In addition, Swisswatch, which I am using as a on-screen analog clock, keeps ticking away showing the correct time. The GKrellM clock is also current.

I tried restarting Fluxbox and the taskbar clock updated, but it hasn't budged since.

I dug around in ~/.fluxbox but couldn't find anything helpful.

Any suggestions as to where else I should look?

This is a minor issue. If worse comes to worse, I shall simply remove the clock from the taskbar.

What version, on 1.3.7 no issues here, but --

I wonder if the issue is with /etc/localtime, does that agree with what you real want from /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Or maybe if starting from somekind of DM (line xdm) I wonder if you need to set TZ,example for me:

setenv TZ America/New_York

Fluxbox v. 1.3.5.

Found the problem. I had a typo in the date code.

I was telling my girlfriend just this morning that I thought it was time to see the eye doctor and get new glasses . . . .

Interesting, would have expected the characters to echo out. Must be a 1.3.5 thing, on 1.3.7 I just get the characters printed. Maybe you had some control characters in it or maybe UTF-8 non-ascii characters ?

The characters were visible, but on my 23" monitor the "configure clock" dialog was very small and I just misread the contents.

Not my best moment, but I figured out owed the rest of the story.