Detroit is not in Canada, 12.04

[Atheg]

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 over the weekend. When it asked me to select my location or time zone or whatever, I selected Detroit, Michigan, Eastern Time Zone. When I booted up, I saw that my locale settings were for Canada, rather than the US. So, I had Canadian date format, units, and currency.

I changed it to US per this askubuntu thread:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/133011/set-default-language-to-english-us-in-12-04

Not sure where this geography information is stored, but this fixed the problem for me after the fact.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[kskumar (kskumar)]

I have experienced this on installs of 13.04, 13.10, and 14.04. It also adds Canadian servers to sources.list instead of US servers.

Worth noting: when the installer asks you to type in your city and then it displays it on the map, it plots the pin for Detroit, Michigan, USA at the approximate location of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (see attached screenshot).

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Not a bug in tzdata, but definitely an installer issue to look at. As a Canadian, I'd call this a feature, but I suspect Detroit residents might be inclined to disagree. ;)

[Robert McKee (bbobbo177)]

This is still a bug in 16.04. If installing with Detroit for the location as stated above "it will match it with Canadian sources.list", as well as the "settings for Canada, rather than the US. So, I had Canadian date format, units, and currency".

[Jack Christensen (jchristensen)]

Still a bug in 20.04, evident when installing Linux Mint 20.