[Bug 238003] Re: Non-existant time zones for some Mexico cities in Clock 2.22.2

[RobHoare]

This bug was filed more than 4 years ago, and has been ignored for all
that time.

Obviously, I no longer have a way to test it with Ubuntu 8.04.

It's probably best to respond to bug reports within the first year or
two, if further information is needed.

When Ubuntu moved to Unity, I switched to XCFE, which has a different
clock system.  I've no idea if the current clock program in the base
Ubuntu has fixed this bug, and judging from the speed of bug report
responses, nobody cares anyway.  It's certainly put me off reporting any
more bugs.

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Title:
  Non-existant time zones for some Mexico cities in Clock 2.22.2

Status in “tzdata” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Adding some locations in Mexico with "clock preferences" does not
  work.  A location in Mexico can be chosen, but when it is saved it
  does not appear in the list of saved locations.

  This is because the Mexico locations are listed with timezones that do
  not exist.

  For example, go to "clock preferences", select locations, then "add".
  Enter "Tijuana" in location name, press "find", then "OK".  Details of
  the location are shown, with a timezone of "Mexico/BajaNorte".
  Pressing OK again does not save the new location.

  This appears to be because Mexico/BajaNorte is not a valid timezone
  (or, it's a valid time zone but the list used to check it against is
  out of date).

  If, during the add location process, you manually select a timezone
  from the timezone pull-down menu, there are no "Mexico/" timezones
  listed.  Instead, the Mexico zones are shown under "America", such as
  America/Tijuana.  If the timezone is manually changed to this, the
  location can be saved successfully.  So, the work around if a location
  cannot be saved, is to alter the timezone to one that does exist.

  In short if the timezone listed along the city (examples: Tijuana,
  Mexicali, etc) does not exist in the list of timezones Clock uses to
  populate the timezone list the location cannot be saved (there is no
  error message, it just ignores it).

  This is on a system with Ubuntu 8.04, upgraded from 7.10.  Maybe at
  some point time zone lists have been changed differently.  When
  setting the time zone in Clock I can see the America/Tijuana zone, but
  not zones like Mexico/BajaNorte.  It's not clear which is
  current/correct.

  Note: I've selected "I don't know" for the application, as launchpad
  claims Clock 2.22.2 does not exist.  Maybe gnome-panel?

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Jun  6 22:14:57 2008
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
  Package: yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
   LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: yelp
  Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

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