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Bug 588946 - Canberra is not in Victoria
Canberra is not in Victoria
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: libgweather
Classification: Core
Component: locations
2.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 2.22.0
Assigned To: libgweather-maint
libgweather-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-18 11:58 UTC by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Modified: 2010-02-23 07:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2009-07-18 11:58:23 UTC 
[ Forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/523968 ]

This was reported against 2.24.3, but I've reproduced it with 2.26.1:

"
When adding Canberra (Australia) as a location in the Gnome panel
clock applet, it is found automatically with timezone "Eastern Time
(Victoria)", or Australia/Melbourne.

But Canberra is located in the Australian Capital Territory, not in
Victoria.  The correct timezone would be "Eastern Time (Australian
Capital Territory)" or Australia/Canberra.  

If that timezone is not available, then "Eastern Time (New South
Wales)", or Australia/Sydney, would be more appropriate.  The
Australian Capital Territory is wholly located within the state of New
South Wales, and is much closer to Sydney than to Melbourne.  The
government of the ACT would coordinate matters such as timezone (that
is, daylight savings time etc) in line with NSW rather than Victoria.
"
Comment 1 Dan Winship 2009-07-18 19:51:36 UTC 
It looks like it's a bug that we have separate time zones for Victoria and NSW, and they ought to be merged into just plain "Eastern Time".
Comment 2 Frank Solensky 2010-02-23 03:21:55 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version by changing the timezone hint to "Australia/ACT".
The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
Comment 3 Frank Solensky 2010-02-23 07:06:12 UTC 
Change of plans: set timezone to Australia/Sydney.  The other suggested values weren't represented in /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab and caused other configuration checks to fail.