libgweather

Can't choose the exact timezone location in Argentina

Bug #373268 reported by Alfrenovsky
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Gnome-clock-applet 2.26.0 in ubuntu jaunty

When adding a location, some countries have more than one timezone and only the main one is eligible.

In Argentina for example, the only eligible timezone is "Argentina (GMT-3/GMT-2)", is a single option with obvously more than one timezone and it sets America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires. There're are other cities in Argentina with other timezone or other daylight saving policies.

In Brazil por example, there's a submenu to choose the cities.

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) → libgweather (Ubuntu)
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ooze (zoe-gauthier) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You would only need a separate time zone for cities in the Provincia de San Luis, otherwise the rest of Argentina is (officially) in the same time zone. Is this distinction what what you mean is this bug report?

Thanks!

Changed in libgweather (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
summary: - Can't choose the exact timezone location in some countries
+ Can't choose the exact timezone location in Argentina
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Alfrenovsky (alfredo-fing) wrote :

What I want is the ability to choose the exact timezone for any Province.

In Argentina the Summer/Winter daylight saving time is unpredictable. The laws changing the time in Buenos Aires can be aproved in the same week of the change. An not all the provinces follows. Some provinces takes a scientific advice, some other just do politics.

San Luis is the only province that has a different timezone all the year. But even when usually Mendoza has the same time as Buenos Aires, it allways has a different weather.

I think I can have the same options for setting the gnome timezone as I have for /etc/timezone

For now I'm editing manually ~gconf/apps/panel/applets/applet_0/prefs/%gconf.xml and it works.

If libgweather supports America/Argentina/Mendoza in the configuration it should be possible to set this config option via the graphic user interface.

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ooze (zoe-gauthier) wrote :

The tracking of the daylight saving time is done automatically by the tzdata package. In the clock applet, you only choose the time zone identifier. If the time is wrong, please file a new bug against the tzdata package.

The weather is obtained from the location (city) you choose. If you set a location to Mendoza, you will get the correct weather, regardless of the time zone. The time zone is just guessed from the geographical coordinates of the city. If a necessary major city (more than 100 000 habitants) is missing, please file a different bug :-)

Finally, it would be nice if you could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance!

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Alfrenovsky (alfredo-fing) wrote :

If a set location to Mendoza I get the correct weather. The problem is that I can't choose mendoza using the GUI.
I can choose only Argentina, that selects Argentina/BuenorAires

ooze (zoe-gauthier)
Changed in libgweather (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in libgweather:
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in libgweather:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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Javier Moreno (elpasmo) wrote :

I can confirm this in Maverick 10.10. libgweather: 2.30.3-0ubuntu1

Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca)
Changed in libgweather (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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