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Bug 753699 - Add UTC to master version of locations.xml.in
Add UTC to master version of locations.xml.in
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: libgweather
Classification: Core
Component: locations
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: future
Assigned To: libgweather-maint
libgweather-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-08-17 00:16 UTC by Erik Beck
Modified: 2017-12-01 10:42 UTC
See Also:
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Description Erik Beck 2015-08-17 00:16:07 UTC 
Please add UTC to the libgweather system (locations.xml.in).

Lack of UTC in libgweather means there is no UTC in gnome-clocks, which is causing headaches. 

See bug 692243 for more details.

Thanks,

Erik
Comment 1 Giovanni Campagna 2015-08-17 02:53:17 UTC 
Well, UTC is not a location, it's a timezone, and not even a country specific one.

libgweather, as the name implies, is primarily a weather library - and there is no such thing as UTC weather.
We have timezone support, because for some reason people conflate timezone and weather in most software, but I find hard to agree that a location search widget should include UTC, especially when that location search widget is used in evolution and gnome-weather.
(As a point of comparison, searching "utc" in google maps does not bring up anything timezone related)

So my answer to this bug is tentatively WONTFIX, and to bug 692243 I would say they should use GWeatherTimezoneMenu (which has timezones, not locations, and has UTC and all the variants of it with DST), or if the design calls for a search entry, someone should write a GWeatherTimezoneEntry.
Comment 2 Erik Beck 2015-08-18 00:36:08 UTC 
Thanks. I will pass the info on to bug 692243.
Comment 3 Erik Beck 2015-11-06 14:43:31 UTC 
Just found tzclock (tzclock.org). Looks like it will meet my needs.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2017-12-01 10:42:01 UTC 
See bug 791066