There are two separate issues here: choosing the time zone as an item in the first place, and displaying it in the menu once it’s chosen.
For choosing the time zone as an item, you can already do that with UTC, because we made sure “UTC” is special-cased as something you can search for. In theory, we could do the same with all the time zone names, and first-letter abbreviations of all the time zone names: no dialog, just make them options in the menu. Right now, though, there is nothing in Ubuntu that knows the names or abbreviations of any other time zones — because the time zone database we use (tzdata) doesn’t contain them. It contains information about all the daylight saving changes for a zone called “America/New_York”, going back to 1918 … but it can’t tell you that when in daylight saving, the “America/New_York” zone is called EDT. We would have to start maintaining a parallel database that mapped tzdata zone names, in and out of daylight saving, to their common abbreviations. Common names would be even harder because they’d need translating into multiple languages. For displaying the time zone in the menu once it’s chosen, multiple time zones with the same abbreviation is not actually a problem. As shown in this screenshot, it’s already the case that you can add multiple cities with the same name and they aren’t distinguished. We trust that either you won’t do that, or that you’ll know which is which. The same could be true for time zone abbreviations. ** Attachment added: "menu showing multiple cities with the same name" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1577414/+attachment/4661363/+files/1577414-menu-times.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1577414 Title: Adding time zones to locations of indicator-datetime To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-datetime/+bug/1577414/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
