the set button is the way to define the system timezone, modern desktop users don't want to reconfigure tzdata on the command line
the clock applet doesn't try to guess a location, there is none configured by default and you have to add one and use the set button to change this one what you want is to have the weather for a random location and not the system one, there is a weather applet you can use for that, closing this bug that's not a gnome-panel bug, you don't have to set any location there or enable the weather if you don't like it, you can simply use a weather applet ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- weather not shown in world-clock-applet when computer timezone differs from home location timezone https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232375 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