Mirror should be selected based on timezone, not language

[Vadim]

I installed the 9.04 beta with these settings:

Language: Russian
Keyboard layout: US English
Timezone: Madrid, Spain

The reason is that I was born in Russia and Russian is my first language. Currently I live in Spain and mostly use English when using the computer.

Based on this, the installer automatically selects a russian mirror. I believe this is the wrong choice, it should choose the mirror based on the timezone instead.

There are reasons to choose a language that doesn't correspond to the country one lives in, such as being originally from somewhere else, to help learn a foreign language, the unavailablilty of one's first language, or the bad quality of the translation. The keyboard layout also doesn't necessarily indicate the user's physical location.

However, it probably can be assumed that users choose a timezone that matches their current real world location, so this would be the best source to use for selecting a package mirror.

[Murat Gunes (mgunes)]

Thanks for your suggestion. Assigning to Ubiquity.

[AJenbo (ajenbo)]

It might be even better to use geo-ip if posible.

[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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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