Clock applet - High CPU usage

[oz123]

Expected behaviour

reasonable CPU usage for displaying the date\weather?

Actual behaviour

The CPU is permanently occupied 20-30% for the clock applet.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Have the applet running? I guess I have many cities I would like to know the time at.
Currently 8.

MATE general version

1.26

Package version

1.26.2

Linux Distribution

Gentoo

Link to bugreport of your Distribution (requirement)

https://bugs.gentoo.org/891641

[oz123]

Restarting mate - not just the applet seems to help:

Note the previous screenshot where the clock applet has ~318 hours uptime.

[lukefromdc]

On a machine never left on unattended (encrypted) and with no cities showing I have the panel (with the clock in-process ands thus its resource use is panel resource use) barely making the top ten when running top in terminal with the machine running only a web browser and Audacious (sound player) and about 2% total CPU use spread over 12 threads

[raveit65]

I do not see the high cpu usage with clock-applet here. Maybe your clock-applet did hand when receiving data from your local timezone?
Why not restarting the panel?