** Description changed: - I went to the preferences panel of GNOME's clock applet to add a - location. However, when I went to add Pittsburgh, it associated the - city with the America/Detroit timezone when it belongs America/New York - timezone. The latitude and longitude are correct. + The gnome panel clock applet's "Locations" section assigns the wrong + timezone to many cities if you add them via Edit -> Add -> Find. + Examples of cities that have the wrong timezone assigned include + Pittsburgh USA, Beijing China, Bombay (Mumbai) India, St. Petersburg + Russia and many others. + + The cause of the bug is that the timezone is calculated using a + heuristic that takes the longitude of the city and tries to find the + nearest timezone by longitude. As timezones often follow political + boundaries rather than longitude, this gives incorrect results for many + cities. + + WORKAROUND: + If you know the correct timezone for a city, after pressing "OK" in the Find dialog, you can override the timezone in the "Timezone" dropdown box. + + ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: + I went to the preferences panel of GNOME's clock applet to add a location. However, when I went to add Pittsburgh, it associated the city with the America/Detroit timezone when it belongs America/New York timezone. The latitude and longitude are correct.
-- Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
