Automatic time zone not working when location disabled

[shankao]

I have just arrived to Singapore from Spain, and the automatic time zone setting in gnome shell is not having any effect.
I will keep it as is for 1 or 2 days before forcing it manually, but it'd be nice for an advertised feature to work

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.26.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-17.20-generic 4.13.8
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jan 8 17:29:46 2018
DisplayManager: gdm3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-25 (1870 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120627)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_SG:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Open Settings and make sure that Privacy > Location Sharing is turned on.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Oops, I mean "Location Services" not Sharing.

[shankao (shankao)]

That solved the problem, but... shouldn't the automatic timezone option be grayed out or warn about it not working when Location Services is turned off?

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Ah yes. It appears that issue has already been reported:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788714

[Petr Kubánek (petr-kubanek)]

Patch merged into gnome-control. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/merge_requests/165 for details.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Upstream commited a change to disable the control when location service is disabled
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/merge_requests/165

That's still a bit confusing if the user doesn't know why it's not available but at least reflects if it's working or not