Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Panel |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
The gnome panel clock applet's "Locations" section assigns the wrong timezone to many cities if you add them via Edit -> Add -> Find. Examples of cities that have the wrong timezone assigned include Pittsburgh USA, Beijing China, Bombay (Mumbai) India, St. Petersburg Russia and many others.
The cause of the bug is that the timezone is selected based on the nearest city in the database which has a timezone named for it, ignoring political boundaries.
WORKAROUND:
If you know the correct timezone for a city, after pressing "OK" in the Find dialog, you can override the timezone in the "Timezone" dropdown box.
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
I went to the preferences panel of GNOME's clock applet to add a location. However, when I went to add Pittsburgh, it associated the city with the America/Detroit timezone when it belongs America/New York timezone. The latitude and longitude are correct.
Related branches
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
assignee: | nobody → desktop-bugs |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Has any action been taken? This seems like it should be a simple fix.