Comment 2 for bug 196124

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:50 AM, alexrudd <email address hidden> wrote:

> I think the timezones are pulled from tzdata:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata
>
> However, Launchpad refuses to let me add tzdata as a project. In any
> case, I guess you can download the .tar.gz and take a look around.
>

I don't think the problem actually lies with the tzdata itself. That surely
is where it gets the actual timezone information, but it does not seem to be
where it gets the city database from. In my example above, Eugene does not
appear anywhere in the tzdata information that I can see. However, using the
"location" setup in the clock, there is another database of cities
somewhere, including latitude and longitude information for the city. This
information is (apparently) used to determine the timezone that the city is
in. This is where this bug appears. At least for Eugene, it is erroneously
placed into the Mountain time zone, not Pacific where it belongs.

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