incorrect time information for UAE

Bug #1310065 reported by Yousuf 'Jay' Philips
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When running the installer at the 'Where are you?' page, if you try to find the United Arab Emirates or Bahrain, it will position you in West Africa at GMT+1. I had noticed this bug in 13.10 a few weeks back and have tested installing 14.04 and still see it.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/multiboot/xubuntu-19.10-daily-06-23-desktop-amd64/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/multiboot/xubuntu-19.10-daily-06-23-desktop-amd64/preseed/xubuntu.seed cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid live-media-path=/multiboot/xubuntu-19.10-daily-06-23-desktop-amd64/casper/ initrd=/multiboot/xubuntu-19.10-daily-06-23-desktop-amd64/casper/initrd quiet splash ---
Package: ubiquity 19.10.5
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-17.18-generic 5.0.8
Tags: eoan xubuntu
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-17-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/multiboot/xubuntu-19.10-daily-06-23-desktop-amd64/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/multiboot/xubuntu-19.10-daily-06-23-desktop-amd64/preseed/xubuntu.seed cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid live-media-path=/multiboot/xubuntu-19.10-daily-06-23-desktop-amd64/casper/ initrd=/multiboot/xubuntu-19.10-daily-06-23-desktop-amd64/casper/initrd quiet splash ---
Package: ubiquity 19.10.5 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-17.18-generic 5.0.8
Tags: eoan ubiquity-19.10.5 xubuntu
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-17-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote :
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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/bugs/1310065

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote : Casper.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected eoan xubuntu
description: updated
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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote : Dependencies.txt

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote : ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote : UbiquitySyslog.txt

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tags: added: ubiquity-19.10.5
description: updated
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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote : Casper.txt

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote : Dependencies.txt

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote : ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote : UbiquityDebug.txt

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote : UbiquityPartman.txt

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote : UbiquitySyslog.txt

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote :

Issue still present in Ubuntu 19.10.

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Yousuf 'Jay' Philips (philipz85) wrote :

Video demonstrating the issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZMl71LveL4

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