[Bug 892370] Re: The time zone for China should default to Beijing not Shanghai (when offline)

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 28 September 2012 22:09, James M. Leddy <892370 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks much for testing. I've been meaning to test on the ubiquity side
> of things, but I haven't been able to build an image with those packages
> yet. I'm not sure if they're using a different package or what's going
> on. Every time I have tested in a running install offline I was able to
> select Beijing. However, clicking on a given city is pretty tough to do,
> since there are a lot of locations in geonames. The trick is to continue
> clicking without using the mouse. When this is done the pin will radiate
> outwards from where you initially clicked, always going to the next
> closest city.
>
> I'll investigate more and also fix the problem on the packaging side of
> things.
>

The way the code works in geonames-lookup.ubuntu.com, after getting
the mouse cursor, we take the area around it (not sure how big), get
the list of cities sorted by population & take the top onces. Because
most likely you want a 20 M Bejing and not the 15k population location
next to it.

It's actually very each to test LiveCD, start live session add your
ppa, upgrade packages (even ubiquity itself) and run it for fun and
profit. Not need to rebuild the images ;-)

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

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Title:
  The time zone for China should default to Beijing not Shanghai (when
  offline)

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  In Progress
Status in OEM Priority Project oneiric series:
  Won't Fix
Status in OEM Priority Project precise series:
  Won't Fix
Status in OEM Priority Project quantal series:
  In Progress
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Quantal:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When installing Ubuntu and selecting Simplified Chinese as the default
  language, the default timezone should point to Beijing instead of
  Shanghai.  Everything in China is referenced to Beijing time.  In
  mainland China this standard time is called Beijing Time (北京时间)
  domestically but it is commonly referred to as China Standard Time
  (CST) internationally.

  This seems to have come up a lot in past bugs:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/228554
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/517621

  Steps to recreate:

  1) Install Ubuntu and select Simplified Chinese for the language.

  Actual Results:
  At the timezone page, the default city is Shanghai.

  Expected Results:
  Most Chinese users prefer it be set to Beijing.

  It looks as if the upstream tz database needs to be updated for
  Beijing for starters, as Beijing is not listed in there.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: tzdata 2011n-0ubuntu0.11.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Nov 18 15:26:03 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: tzdata
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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