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[mikelococo <801043@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It looks to me like Melissa is describing the "Locations" dialogue described at the following URL:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#Time_.26_Date_settings

I've just spent the last 20 minutes trying to add an Abu Dhabi location (Gulf Standard Time) to the time-widget shown in the upper-right hand corner of the default Unity desktop (I believe it's an indicator) shown in the "Menu" section of that document:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeAndDate#The_menu

I have, so far, failed to succeed due to the extraordinarily non-
discoverable interface for adding locations.  I've tried:

1) Typing "Abu Dhabi", which results in a red-dash icon appearing in the list-item, presumably indicating that no such location is known.
2) Typing "Dubai", another nearby major city in the same time zone... same red-dash.
3) Typing "GST", the standard abbreviation of the time-zone name, same red-dash.
4) Typing "Gulf Standard Time", the full name of the time zone, same red-dash.
5) Typing "United Arab Emirates", the name of the country in which these cities are located, same red-dash.

It's possible that the GST timezone is actually missing from the list,
but I'm not certain because there's no simple way for me to browse the
full list. Submitting random guesses to get a glimpse of a subset of the
list is quite a frustrating method of discovering options.

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Title:
  locations autocomplete in date/time dialog is not intuitive for common
  locations

Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  In the Date dialog > time and date settings > clock > locations
  dialog, when trying to add non-obscure locations such as "san
  francisco" (only US city showing for 'san' is 'san antonio' in texas),
  "sydney" (shows up as 'syd' so typing 'sydn' gets nothing) and
  "london" (nothing in the UK appears) in the autocomplete filter, these
  locations either don't show, or show under wrong titles.

  Alternately, searching for "usa" gets locations in africa and russia,
  "united" gets no results, and "calif" gets no results, so there
  appears to be no attempt to match against the smaller text appearing
  alongside the location title either.

  This is on a freshly upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 system. I dearly
  missed having this feature in 10.10, and call me hard to please, but
  I'd like to have it actually usable if it's there now.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gnome-panel 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Jun 23 19:45:21 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
   LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-panel
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-22 (0 days ago)

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