Assumed Timezone is wrong for Hibbing Minnesota
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| tzdata (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: tzdata
I'm 100% up to date on packages for Hardy 8.04 x64 - Alpha6.
When picking a location for the city of Hibbing, Minnesota, USA -- the time zone defaults to America/Atikokan ... which is Eastern Standard Time (-5 GMT,) but all of Minnesota is Central Standard Time (-6 GMT.)
This is also a problem for Grand Marais, Minnesota -- which gets lumped in with the America/Thunder_Bay ... which is actually Canada, not America (USA.) Grand Marais, Minnesota (not Michigan) is set to EST and it should be CST.
Minneapolis, Minnesota defaults to America/Rainy_River and it is further East than Hibbing.
So there is an issue somewhere with how cities are associated with time zones. It seems like the NE "arrowhead" of Minnesota is all set to Eastern Standard Time instead of Central Standard Time.
I'm not sure if this is a tzdata problem or a gnome applet / clock issue.
On a side-note ... we should really have a tz entry for each state (maybe state capitals unless the state has two time zones) or reduce the number of entries overall in tzdata. Menominee, Wisconsin has a tz entry and I'm not sure why... we could remove all Mid-west USA entries except Chicago (which is CST) and I think people would figure it out.
Rainy River is on the border of Minnesota (USA) / Ontario (Canada) which is a very sparsely populated area with the two main industries being Farming (Sugar Beets) and Tourism (Fishing.) I only know about the Rainy River because I lived up there for a few years and fished the River but most of the state's residents do not know that as a location in our time zone.
| Scott Wegner (swegner) wrote | #1 |
| Mary Gardiner (puzzlement) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in tzdata: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Ryan Sinn (ryan-sinn) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in tzdata: | |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
I have a similar issue with my timezone being off. I just upgraded to Hardy alpha 6 and started noticing this problem (although it was also around the DST change, so may be unrelated). I live in Champaign, IL, which is automatically grouped in with America/
I second the opinion that we should consider timezone regions of a broader scope-- it doesn't make sense to have many cities represented in the same timezone-- it only adds clutter.