** 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.
On the desktop, we save the city name the user picks alongside the ISO
- timezone name. Maybe even in the same field? I don't remember how we
- do it. But we should just do that.
+ 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
** Also affects: unity8 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
When displaying the selected timezone, we should show the city the
user picked
Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
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.
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
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