Installer highlights incorrect time zone for some cities
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Jaunty daily, 2009-03-11
Jaunty alpha 6
1. In the installer, advance to the "Where are you?" step.
2. From the menus, choose any of these cities:
- "America" > "New York"
- "America" > "Los Angeles"
- "Australia" > "Perth"
- "Australia" > "Melbourne"
- "Australia" > "Sydney"
- "Pacific" > "Auckland"
- "Africa" > "Johannesburg"
What happens: The time zone immediately to the east of the selected city is highlighted.
What should happen: The time zone that the city is actually in is highlighted.
The same problem does not happen with other cities, such as "Europe" > "London", "Europe" > "Paris", or "Australia" > "Darwin".
For example selecting "Johannesburg" displayed a (non-editable) time which is 2 hours ahead of the current time.
During a fresh installation of Ubuntu 9.04 the modem was set to Local Only internet (Not International). This may have caused an incorrect Time Zone interpretation obtained from local time servers. During installation the computer clock was advanced by 2 hours. This had to be corrected manually after installation. A few days after installation, it is noted that some of the system files (created or modified at boot-time) show the correct boot time, while others show the time it was modified 2 hours in the future.
(This bug report previously also covered cities being shown in the wrong place, which is reported separately as bug 334284. Also do not confuse this with bug 342586, about some cities being completely unclickable.)
Same problem here for the New York timezone. Screenshot attached.