It looks to me like Melissa is describing the "Locations" dialogue described at 
the following URL:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#Time_.26_Date_settings

I've just spent the last 20 minutes trying to add an Abu Dhabi location (Gulf 
Standard Time) to the time-widget shown in the upper-right hand corner of the 
default Unity desktop (I believe it's an indicator) shown in the "Menu" section 
of that document:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#The_menu

I have, so far, failed to succeed due to the extraordinarily non-
discoverable interface for adding locations.  I've tried:

1) Typing "Abu Dhabi", which results in a red-dash icon appearing in the 
list-item, presumably indicating that no such location is known.
2) Typing "Dubai", another nearby major city in the same time zone... same 
red-dash.
3) Typing "GST", the standard abbreviation of the time-zone name, same red-dash.
4) Typing "Gulf Standard Time", the full name of the time zone, same red-dash.
5) Typing "United Arab Emirates", the name of the country in which these cities 
are located, same red-dash.

It's possible that the GST timezone is actually missing from the list,
but I'm not certain because there's no simple way for me to browse the
full list. Submitting random guesses to get a glimpse of a subset of the
list is quite a frustrating method of discovering options.

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  locations autocomplete in date/time dialog is not intuitive for common
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