Current Location in Clock is wrong

[Dave Dixon]

manta 14.10 r44 Nexus 10

In System Settings I set the location to Albuquerque (timezone defaults to Denver).

When I open the Clock app, it says Searching for Location, then displays Farmington. There's dozens of Farmingtons in the US, but I'm thinking it means Farmington, NM. which is almost 200 miles away.

I can manually set the Clock location to Albuquerque, but it doesn't remember it.

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Use QT Location to obtain the user's location. The user location may take a while to load since we don't have AGPS support. But rather than waiting on it, lets proceed with the implementation.

- Use [1] to get the user' city list after passing it the lat and long obtained from GPS.

- If GPS is not available (disabled) or there is no network connection, then set the location string to the last known location. If there are no last know location, then set it to "Unable to detect user location".

- Once the user location is found, save it using U1db to use it the next time the app starts up.

[1] http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceNameJSON?formatted=true&lat=55.93&lng=-3.24&username=krnekhelesh&style=full

[Dave Dixon (ddixon-swcp)]

current build number: 44
device name: manta
channel: devel
alias: ubuntu-touch/utopic
last update: 2014-05-26 01:29:29
version version: 44
version ubuntu: 20140522.1
version device: 20140513.2

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Currently the clock app is using GeoIP to determine the location of the user. The accuracy of GeoIP is unfortunately poor. However until location service support lands in the platform, we will have to stick with GeoIP. Hopefully this happens in the next 1-2 months.

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

We will be fixing this in the new clock app (reboot) which will replace the old clock app (the one with purple background). The replacement will happen in a day or two, so it doesn't make any sense to backport it to the old clock app. Hence marking it as won't fix.

[Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-clock-app at revision 165, scheduled for release in ubuntu-clock-app, milestone rtm