[Bug 1260972] Re: Montreal not available in Ubiquity time zome selector

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

** Description changed:

  In Trusty, but this is also true for 13.10, Montreal has disappeared
  from Ubiquity time zone selector.
+ 
+ ===
+ 
+ When offline, without internet connectivity provided, we only ship
+ zone.tab file to access unique set of timezones which are not per
+ city/country/region, but rather per unique timezone (that is offsets &
+ summer/winter time shifts).
+ 
+ In 2013h release, tzdata upstream consolidated "America/Montreal" &
+ "America/Toronto" into a single entry to cover both Ontario & Quebec.
+ Thus all systems that ship up to date zone.tab file only, from tzdata
+ package, no longer have a distinct entry for Montreal, instead it's this
+ new Easter Time joined entry.
+ 
+ Or alternatively establish internet connectivity and then one can select
+ any city/town/location because an extensive remote database of
+ geolocations is used to define where you are.
+ 
+ Upstream tzdata change diff can be seen here:
+ http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/tzdata/vivid/revision/103
+ 
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
  Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Dec 14 07:55:22 2013
  InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- debian-installer/language=fr keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=ca
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131214)
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANGUAGE=en
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
-  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANGUAGE=en
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
+  LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Title:
  Montreal not available in Ubiquity time zome selector

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Invalid
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  In Trusty, but this is also true for 13.10, Montreal has disappeared
  from Ubiquity time zone selector.

  ===

  When offline, without internet connectivity provided, we only ship
  zone.tab file to access unique set of timezones which are not per
  city/country/region, but rather per unique timezone (that is offsets &
  summer/winter time shifts).

  In 2013h release, tzdata upstream consolidated "America/Montreal" &
  "America/Toronto" into a single entry to cover both Ontario & Quebec.
  Thus all systems that ship up to date zone.tab file only, from tzdata
  package, no longer have a distinct entry for Montreal, instead it's
  this new Easter Time joined entry.

  Or alternatively establish internet connectivity and then one can
  select any city/town/location because an extensive remote database of
  geolocations is used to define where you are.

  Upstream tzdata change diff can be seen here:
  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/tzdata/vivid/revision/103

  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4
  Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.336ubuntu1
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Dec 14 07:55:22 2013
  InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- debian-installer/language=fr keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=ca
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131214)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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