Sydney timezone is in the wrong location

[Jackson Doak]

In ubiquity, the timezone marker points at least 500km away from sydney. it seems to be in the ACT(canberra) rather than new south wales.

This occurs when choosing the location in the drop down list.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1172015

[Sergio Meneses (sergiomeneses)]

I got this picture using Ubuntu-Saucy

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

I too as an Australian have noticed this in the past. Looking at the Ubiquity source the code that produces these locations is in: ubiquity/tz.py

It processes the locations from the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab which is from the Unix tz database and looking at the file on my 13.04 system it seems the Sydney location is pretty much correct: -33.52 +151.13. Its possible that the code that parses the locations isn't working correctly. Are there other citys around the world in the wrong place or is it just Sydney?

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

Interesting.

I say it's a conspiracy against sydney ;) because bug 1066223 also exists

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Timothy Arceri <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> I too as an Australian have noticed this in the past. Looking at the
> Ubiquity source the code that produces these locations is in:
> ubiquity/tz.py
>
> It processes the locations from the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab
> which is from the Unix tz database and looking at the file on my 13.04
> system it seems the Sydney location is pretty much correct: -33.52
> +151.13. Its possible that the code that parses the locations isn't
> working correctly. Are there other citys around the world in the wrong
> place or is it just Sydney?
>
> ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
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> Title:
> Sydney timezone is in the wrong location
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
> Confirmed
> Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> In ubiquity, the timezone marker points at least 500km away from
> sydney. it seems to be in the ACT(canberra) rather than new south
> wales.
>
> This occurs both with auto-locate and when manually selecting the
> location.
>
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

My testing seems to indicate that the location of the marker is dependent upon where you click. So if you move your cursor around just a wee bit the city name will stay the same although the pushpin marker has moved on the map.

This may be more noticeable with Anchorage, AK or Honolulu, HI.

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

The issue is that when selecting the place from a drop down it doesn't
default to the actual location of the place, just the state it's in

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:

> My testing seems to indicate that the location of the marker is
> dependent upon where you click. So if you move your cursor around just
> a wee bit the city name will stay the same although the pushpin marker
> has moved on the map.
>
> This may be more noticeable with Anchorage, AK or Honolulu, HI.
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1172015
>
> Title:
> Sydney timezone is in the wrong location
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
> Confirmed
> Status in “libtimezonemap” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> In ubiquity, the timezone marker points at least 500km away from
> sydney. it seems to be in the ACT(canberra) rather than new south
> wales.
>
> This occurs both with auto-locate and when manually selecting the
> location.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1172015/+subscriptions
>

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I'll update the description with this information then Jackson.

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

This happens also on trusty with ubiquity 2.17.0.
As Brian wrote in comment #9 different locations are affected. In Asia the issue is more clear. Try it with Yecatarinburg. A tag for trusty will be added.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.