On 08/13/2012 04:50 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
On Aug 13, 2012, at 1:39 PM, James M Leddy wrote:
Then there's the problem that even though you pick Beijing, you still get the tack on Shanghai. It's hard to tell in China, but pick Miami, FL or something and you'll see it's still in New York.
That's a bug. In OS X's System Preferences, I can drag the blue dot to Miami and it stays there, even though it's set /etc/localtime to link to America/New_York.
Interesting, I had no idea OS X was using geonames as well and just assumed everyone was talking about Ubuntu Unity.
I'm talking with the indicator-datetime developers to see if we can include the geonames database on the install medium,
Is that a technical issue or a licensing issue?
Purely technical, I expect we'll go that route (or another route) if we can't change the timezone database, but it'll cost developer time and won't benefit any of the other distros/DEs.