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#6181: Easier timezone selector
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Written by steve196 the 31 Mar 08 at 20:08.
Category: Others.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
On the worldmap show timezones, not cities. Timezones are just much bigger targets for the mouse.
In the selection field below, make a scrollbar for quicker scrolling.
Make the selection field typeable. Instead of scrolling through a long list i should be able to type something like "sweden" or "nebraska" or "gmt+3" and the computer should understand what timezone is meant.
Also do not set the clock, if no timezone was asked. Today, Wubi installations do not ask the timezone, but still set the clock. It makes no sense.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 31 Mar 08 at 20:26
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Yes, it should be easier to change timezone.
Maybe it could auto-detect your timezone by looking up your IP address.
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ld_barthel wrote on the 1 Apr 08 at 05:09
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Take a look at /usr/share/zoneinfo. There are no timezones defined, save a handful of old legacy zones like EST5EDT.
Using cities makes it easier to identify differences in Daylight Saving Time adjustments. (If you've ever dealt with Indiana time, you know how important that can be.)
I suspect Wubi just reads the timezone from the Windows installation, hence it doesn't need to ask the user for that information. (Although why anyone would assume that MS Windows was correct abut *anything* is beyond me... ;-) )
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steve196 wrote on the 1 Apr 08 at 06:25
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If Indiana has different daylight saving time, then Indiana is its own timezone.
Wubi does not get the timezone from Windows, at least it did not do that on my computer.
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tgape wrote on the 4 Jun 08 at 12:44
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Except on Linux systems, I've never seen a graphical timezone selector which did not seem to understand you were selecting timezones...
Special places which have their own timezone (possibly like Arizona, but not like (most of?) Indiana, as the fools there have started changing their clocks) should show up as separate timezones, as mentioned above.
Generally, what I've seen everyone else doing is drawing regions around the selected timezone. So the tooltip remains the city, but the whole timezone lights up.
This is not a case of working like Windows. It's a case of working like Windows, MacOS (all versions, not just X), Solaris, SCO Unix, and I'm sure many others.
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 droetker (Moderator) wrote on the 9 Aug 08 at 00:00
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@steve196, do you mean the clock applet or the time zones at installation?
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