Ubuntu
tzdata package

tzdata refers to Americas as "America"

Bug #599466 reported by Joshua Swink
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tzdata (Debian)
Fix Released
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tzdata (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: tzdata

The time zone configuration scripts refer to the Americas as "America".

To view this bug, enter "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata". The first page displayed asks you to choose your geographic area, and shows a list that starts with:

Africa
America
...

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 server.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

dazza5000 (darran-kelinske)
Changed in tzdata (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

Setting Triaged/Low. Thank you, drizzle, for the upstream link.

Changed in tzdata (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in tzdata (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in tzdata (Debian):
status: New → Fix Committed
Benjamin Drung (bdrung)
Changed in tzdata (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in tzdata (Debian):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2022g-2ubuntu1

---------------
tzdata (2022g-2ubuntu1) lunar; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - Ship ICU 2022g timezone data files which are utilized by PHP
    - Do not rename NEWS into changelog.gz, this fixes a build failure on
      moment-timezone.js
    - Point Vcs-Browser/Git to Launchpad

tzdata (2022g-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Update Czech debconf translation.
    Thanks to Miroslav Kuře <email address hidden> (Closes: #1027862)
  * Update Korean debconf translation.
    Thanks to Changwoo Ryu <email address hidden> (Closes: #1027983)
  * d/tzdata.config: Update Mideast/Riyadh8[789] to Asia/Riyadh
  * Address shellcheck complaints in postinst and tzdata.config
  * d/tzdata.config: Rename Pacific/Enderbury to Pacific/Kanton
  * Replace obsolete two-level American timezones by three-level timezones
  * Translate area "America" as "Americas" in English
    (Closes: #508118, LP: #599466)

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * Update Spanish debconf translation.
    Thanks to Jonatan Porras <email address hidden>
  * Update Polish debconf translation.
    Thanks to Łukasz Dulny <email address hidden>
  * Update French debconf translation.
    Thanks to Baptiste Jammet <email address hidden>
  * Update Hebrew debconf translation.
    Thanks to Omer Zak <email address hidden>
  * Update Swedish debconf translation.
    Thanks to Luna Jernberg <email address hidden>
  * Drop wrong conversion of the Pacific/Enderbury timezone

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * d/rules: Exclude obsolete Uzhgorod and Zaporozhye from debconf
  * Generate debconf templates with Python
  * Drop obsolete tzconfig command (use "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" instead)
  * Do not update US/* timezones to their America/* counterparts
    (Closes: #688318, LP: #772024)
  * Fix German translation of "Indian" to "Indischer Ozean"

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:50:27 +0100

Changed in tzdata (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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