In datetime indicator and control-center panel, it could be easier to distinguish between locations that share the same name

[mikhail-777]

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

2) The version of the package you are using
$ apt-cache policy indicator-datetime
indicator-datetime:
  Установлен: 0.3.94-0ubuntu2
  Кандидат: 0.3.94-0ubuntu2
  Таблица версий:
 *** 0.3.94-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.yandex.ru/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

4) What happened instead
"Name of city/town, country" in locations for cities/towns which have duplicate names in different countries.
It's impossible to understand which country the city/town is in locations drop down menu in notifications area and in the settings of showing locations in time/date settings (when locations is already selected, the only way is: remove all current locations for duplicate cities/towns, reassign location, but you still can't understand which time is showing in drop down menu of datetime indicator in case of cities/towns with duplicate names but in different counties).

3) What you expected to happen: one of these:
 a) auto detect cities/towns, which has duplicates in different countries, and always showing country for them everywhere.
 b) manual option to show counties for all locations everywhere.
 c) manual option to show country for user selected locations from all locations, which user selected (and always showing countries in settings of setup locations).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: indicator-datetime 0.3.94-0ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 3.5.7-zen-proxym-3 i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 26 11:01:23 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101008)
SourcePackage: indicator-datetime
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-10-23 (3 days ago)

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Adding also-affects of Design because I don't think this is addressed in the spec.

Let's say, for example, that a user adds locations of London, England and London, Ohio USA.

What currently gets saved in dconf is: ['America/New_York London', 'Europe/London London'] so a low-code-impact change would be to use the timezone information in the label iff there are two locations with the same name.

However, it would probably be more user-friendly for indicator-datetime to save the human-readable text from libtimezonemap. If you go to add London in unity-control-center, the pulldown lists "London (England, United Kingdom)" and "London (Ohio, USA)". So if we can programmatically extract that parenthetical text, it seems to me that's friendlier.