Antique clock face shows 4 as IV rather than IIII .

Binary package hint: cairo-clock

Theme files for a patch are attached.

Select theme "antique".
In the buggy version, the position of value 4 is represented as IV.
Correct is IIII .

In traditional Roman numerals 4 is IIII not IV . It seems the subtractive principle did not apply to V.

I also viewed a large Book on antique Clocks . With exception of one of the more recent clocks, from the 19th century, all which use Roman numbers represent 4 as IIII.

I corresponded with the original author of the theme. He informed me that he had submitted the theme to the cairo-clock author with a correct clock face but that it was altered by the cairo clock author. He also sent me the correct theme files, which are attached.

There is no upstream bug tracker.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 9 18:16:36 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: cairo-clock 0.3.4-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: cairo-clock
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:8099): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:8099): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:8122): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:8129): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed