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In precise, when I click on the "Time & Date Settings" from the datetime
indicator, I'm presented with a timezone map.  Clicking in the general
area of Iowa/Illinois, US, which is firmly in the US/Central timezone,
results in "Vincennes" being selected as my timezone - which is wrong,
Vincennes is in Eastern time and the highlighted region is clearly not
where my mouse pointer was!  moving slightly to the left and clicking
again, while staying in the right area for the Central timezone, I now
get "Denver" selected, which is one timezone to the WEST of what should
be selected.  If I move my mouse up into Minnesota and click, I get
"Rainy River", which is in the right general timezone but in the wrong
country ( == DST rules are not guaranteed to be the same). Clicking
again at the same point does no good - it does not cycle through the
cities in this timezone band, only continues to present me with the same
wrong zone.

By trial and error, moving the cursor a pixel at a time and clicking
again, I'm ultimately able to choose Chicago.

This UI is completely unusable.  I know it didn't work this poorly in
oneiric, so something seems to have regressed upstream.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: indicator-datetime 0.3.1-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-3.3-generic 3.1.0
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.26-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 21 10:49:58 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-datetime
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-08 (12 days ago)

** Affects: indicator-datetime
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Precise)
     Importance: High
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise running-unity
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timezone map no longer allows reliable selection of the correct zone
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/893197
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