[Bug 185190] Re: Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing)

2008-04-07 Thread Richard J Foster
Ah... Thanks Steve. As long as that's the way it's supposed to work. I had briefly looked at the patch in GNOME's repository and couldn't see how it might "fix" that apparent weirdness, but unfortunately I didn't have the resources (or time) to build things locally and check for myself. >From my p

[Bug 185190] Re: Clock applet chooses wrong timezone for many cities (eg Pittsburgh, Beijing)

2008-04-07 Thread Richard J Foster
OK... so it is now possible to set my local timezone (St Petersburg, Florida) correctly, but the second timezone I have configured (London, UK) is still showing up as BST + 5 even after manually selecting Europe/London as the timezone... Surely (since the UK has now changed for the summer) it shoul

[Bug 185190] Re: City (Pittsburgh) Associated w/ Wrong Timezone

2008-03-14 Thread Richard J Foster
Erm... Ignore that last comment, It doesn't help in Pittsburgh's case anyway. :-( -- City (Pittsburgh) Associated w/ Wrong Timezone https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs ma

[Bug 185190] Re: City (Pittsburgh) Associated w/ Wrong Timezone

2008-03-14 Thread Richard J Foster
This certainly coincides with what I'm seeing. St Petersburg, Fl -> Houston, Tx = 787 miles. Clearly less than the 835 miles to Washington, DC. Could something like ensuring the difference in longitude does not exceed a certain value (presumably somewhere in the 7.5 degree mark) help reduce (or ev

[Bug 64376] Re: Login screen presented repeatedly (Ubuntu Edgy as of Oct 6th)

2006-10-06 Thread Richard J Foster
D'oh! Never mind. Apparently the updates which came through today pushed me dangerously close to filling up the disk drive. It may be appropriate to add some kind of warning when the drive space gets below N% and an update is requested. The issue is basically user error, and aside from the potent

[Bug 64376] Login screen presented repeatedly (Ubuntu Edgy as of Oct 6th)

2006-10-06 Thread Richard J Foster
Public bug reported: I have been running Ubuntu edgy for some time without problems. This morning, I ran update-manager and updated all packages. After doing so, and restarting the system as requested, I have been unable to log in. The symptoms are as follows: Ubuntu appears to start correctly. I