** Branch linked: lp:~mterry/ubuntu-system-settings/timezone-name ** Branch linked: lp:~mterry/unity8/timezone-name
** Description changed: Currently, if I search timezones for Boston, and select Boston in the - results, the Time & Date page will display "America/New York" as the - timezone. Which is not super user friendly. - - It gets worse once we land translation support for geonames [1]. The - user might pick 波士顿 and we'll still show "America/New York", which they - might not even be able to read. + results, the Time & Date page will display "New York" as the timezone. + Which is not super user friendly. On the desktop, we save the city name the user picks alongside the ISO timezone name. Specifically, it's stored in gsettings: "com.canonical.indicator.datetime" schema, key "timezone-name". It's stored like "TIMEZONE NAME" -- that is, the ISO timezone followed by one space, followed by the user visible name for that timezone. Indicator-datetime and unity-control-center already support that key. We should too (I guess we should set it in addition to calling org.freedesktop.timedate1.SetTimezone). It might mean extending the time-date plugin's SetTimezone call to take two arguments -- the timezone and the name. This change should be coordinated with unity8, which also sets the timezone on the first device boot. - - [1] - https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/geonames/translations/+merge/288443 ** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Terry (mterry) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1566295 Title: When displaying the selected timezone, we should show the city the user picked To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-system-settings/+bug/1566295/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
