Well, this isn't the same system that I used during the install, but it
is the same network... and it thinks I'm smack in the middle of the
Cheney Reservoir, Kansas. Like, not in the general area, but it
literally thinks I'm living **in the middle of the water (?!)**. I'm
getting this from the latitude and longitude coordinates (I plugged them
into Google Maps). The rest of the XML seemed... well, here, let me show
you:
<Response>
<Ip>174.210.2.185</Ip>
<Status>OK</Status>
<CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
<CountryCode3>USA</CountryCode3>
<CountryName>United States</CountryName>
<RegionCode>None</RegionCode>
<RegionName>None</RegionName>
<City>None</City>
<ZipPostalCode/>
<Latitude>37.7510</Latitude>
<Longitude>-97.8220</Longitude>
<AreaCode>0</AreaCode>
<TimeZone>None</TimeZone>
</Response>
I did this from an HP Chromebook x2 11 with Chrome OS.
My host testing system (the HP Z220 SFF Workstation) gives me different
but also odd results. Same network, same IP, totally different data
(annotated by me):
<Response>
<Ip>174.210.2.185</Ip>
<Status>OK</Status>
<CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
<CountryCode3>USA</CountryCode3>
<CountryName>United States</CountryName>
<RegionCode>CA</RegionCode> (Wrong)
<RegionName>California</RegionName> (Wrong)
<City>North Hills</City> (Nope)
<ZipPostalCode>91343</ZipPostalCode> (Wrong ZIP Code)
<Latitude>34.2363</Latitude>
<Longitude>-118.4798</Longitude>
<AreaCode>818</AreaCode> (Wrongo)
<TimeZone>America/Los_Angeles</TimeZone> (Totally off)
</Response>
The Kinetic VM seems to have an identical response, as does a modded
Acer Chromebook C720 that's running Lubuntu 21.10.
I think this has gotta be my weird Internet. The timezone detection used
to work perfectly well when I was on a cellular hotspot provided by a
mobile phone, and this stuff is working for other people. I could try
doing an install of Focal and see if the timezone detection works there,
since it appears possible that the GeoIP URL treats different operating
systems differently.
This is all on the same network that I initially did the installs on
(and during the installations, I was connected to the network every
time). My new Internet gear is supposed to arrive today, sometime before
7:00 PM, so I'll be able to see what happens on a different network in
the hopefully near future.
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