'Where are you?' screen: the timezone and city displayed never detects timezone and the main city

[Jack Kern]

During QATracker testing (~18 Trust Daily i386 iso and amd64 iso) the timezone and city were never automatically detected/displayed to match the timezone and the main city. Manual selection performed as expected. I noted this in the Comment section on the reports. The "Where are you?'Testcase expectation has never been met.

[Elfy (elfy)]

This is not a bug with the testcase, but with ubiquity.

[Jack Kern (schproodle)]

As stated by Elfy https://launchpad.net/~elfy: This is not a bug with the testcase, but with ubiquity.
Changed bug to Affects ubiquity'

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Jack, in future please reassign bugs to the ubiquity package in Ubuntu, not to the ubiquity project (which we do not use for bug tracking).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[JohnWashington (ubuntu-johnwash)]

In 14.04 it still comes up showing USA as location, although in fact in London and connected to the Internet. In 12.04 it shows London as location, so this is a regression.

[Leó Kolbeinsson (leok)]

Installing Kubuntu Focal Build 06.01.2020 this bug occured as well as bug 1760859

[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/1277189

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Testing a 20.04 Beta image from 20200330 my timezone was detected as New York (East Coast) when in fact I am on the West Coast of the United States.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Actually come to find out this is because I was connected to the Canonical VPN. You can see what geodetection is done by going to:

https://geoip.ubuntu.com/lookup