Public bug reported:

The METAR weather feed for Dhaka has been VGZR.  However this feed has
not been reliably transmitting data recently.  (see
http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/VGZR).  Therefore up to date
weather data has not been showing in the desktop panel applet.

There is a more recent weather feed at VGHS which is at Dhaka Airport
(see http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/VGHS) and uses the new name
for the airport (i.e. Hazrat Shajahal Intl Airport not Zia Intl
Airport).

As a work-around I have updated the code used by the applet using gconf,
but this update will be lost whenever the information is refreshed from
/usr/share/libgweather/Locations.xml.

I believe you should add an entry for VGHS in the Locations.xml file and
make this the default for Dhaka.

I am still using Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS with libgweather 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 but
I have inspected the Locations file in revision 47 in the Oneiric branch
and it also only has VGZR, not VGHS for Dhaka.

I am also emailing the maintainer of the weather stations list at
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/stations.txt to make the same
point as this is impact many sites delivering weather information from
METAR data.

** Affects: libgweather (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Weather Data for Dhaka, Bangladesh not updating regularly

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