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Bug 626770 - Incorrect timezone selected in gnome clock applet for Astana Kazakstan
Incorrect timezone selected in gnome clock applet for Astana Kazakstan
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: libgweather
Classification: Core
Component: locations
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: future
Assigned To: libgweather-maint
libgweather-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-08-12 19:12 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2021-06-09 21:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.29/2.30


Description Pedro Villavicencio 2010-08-12 19:12:06 UTC 
this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgweather/+bug/530191

"In gnome clock applet when I add Astana, Kazakstan as a location, it automatically selects "Western Kazakhstan (GMT +5)" timezone. The correct value should be "Eastern Kazakhstan (GMT +6)", same as for Almaty."
Comment 1 Erlan 2010-08-13 05:59:40 UTC 
Pedro thanks. If testing is needed, please let me know.
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2010-08-13 15:04:10 UTC 
Hm... if I'm remembering right, we couldn't find a good (English-language) source of timezone information for Kazakhstan, so I just guessed based on longitude. Can you confirm the other cities for us?

Right now, for Western Kazakhstan we have: Aqtau, Aqtobe, Astana, Oral, Qostanay, and Shymkent. And for Eastern Kazakhstan we have: Almaty, Qaraghandy, and Qyzylorda. Are any of those wrong besides Astana?

(Also, are "Eastern Kazakhstan" and "Western Kazakhstan" good names for the timezones? Or do people call them something else? Eg, "Almaty Time", etc)
Comment 3 Erlan 2010-08-13 17:04:55 UTC 
Hi Dan,
The closest I could find is here http://www.statoids.com/tkz.html
Also, I think GNOME itself has it right.

Anyhow, in Western Timezone we have Aqtau, Aqtobe, Atyrau and Oral.
In Eastern Timezone (also referred to as "Astana time") we have Almaty, Astana, Karagandy, Kokshetau, Kostanay, Kyzylorda, Oskemen, Shymkent, Taraz and Pavlodar.

Now, you'll probably won't have enough space to list all the cities in Eastern Timezone. I would recommend then to list Astana, Almaty and Shymkent.
Or, take the GNOME approach which calls it "Most Locations"

Thanks a lot for looking into this!
Erlan
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2017-12-13 12:41:26 UTC 
See bug 776493

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Kazakhstan contains information about the provinces and their timezones.
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-09 21:04:43 UTC 
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