Comment 8 for bug 103583

After reading through comments and responses about this issue, and having experienced this first hand SOOO many times, it appears the best solution would be to split this city selection down into two selections, one for the country and one for the timezone.

My understanding is that the city selection is being used for both selecting country related settings, like language, and also setting the timezone.

(There should also be a check box to indicate whether daylight savings is observed or not.)

If users are unsure what timezone they are in, then having a more comprehensive list of cities would also help (although they probably have other issues to deal with...)

As a previous comment mentioned, I also live in Houston, which is the 3rd (4th?) largest city in the US, but this city is not on the list. In contrast, cities like Whitehorse in the Yukon territory are selectable (that's in Canada, btw). I used to live in Whitehorse, which only had a population of about 22k people at the time, so I am not saying it should be removed, but let's be serious...Whitehorse and NOT Houston?!?

I would be more than happy to help update the city list with more relevant city names and locations... :)