** Description changed: The gnome panel clock applet's "Locations" section assigns the wrong timezone to many cities if you add them via Edit -> Add -> Find. Examples of cities that have the wrong timezone assigned include Pittsburgh USA, Beijing China, Bombay (Mumbai) India, St. Petersburg Russia and many others. - The cause of the bug is that the timezone is calculated using a - heuristic that takes the longitude of the city and tries to find the - nearest timezone by longitude. As timezones often follow political - boundaries rather than longitude, this gives incorrect results for many - cities. + The cause of the bug is that the timezone is selected based on the + nearest city in the database which has a timezone named for it, ignoring + political boundaries. WORKAROUND: If you know the correct timezone for a city, after pressing "OK" in the Find dialog, you can override the timezone in the "Timezone" dropdown box. ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: I went to the preferences panel of GNOME's clock applet to add a location. However, when I went to add Pittsburgh, it associated the city with the America/Detroit timezone when it belongs America/New York timezone. The latitude and longitude are correct.
-- Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
