The selection of cities in tzdata has long been a source of frustration: see for example bug 113718, bug 179885, bug 337330, bug 344348, bug 996853, and bug 997737. Ubuntu developers understandably defer to the upstream maintainers, because, whoa, geopolitics. But the end result is that we end up with a strange list, where cities show up multiple times or don't show up at all.
We could, perhaps, filter the list to remove redundant items. Unfortunately your suggestion of one entry per time zone wouldn't work, because the biggest city in your time zone may be very far away. For example, if you're in Houston Texas, the biggest city in your time zone is Chicago Illinois, 1500 kilometres away. I assume that the 12 results you got were: Berlin Reinickendorf Berlin Pankow Berlin Koepenick Bernau bei Berlin Berlin Berlin Mitte Berlin Steglitz Zehlendorf Berlin Wilmersdorf Berlin Spandau Berlin Tempelhof Berlin Schoeneberg Berlin Treptow Of these, "Berlin" is listed as "PPLC" ("capital of a political entity"), while the others are all "PPLX" ("section of populated place"). <http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html> So if this is a reproducible problem, maybe we could filter out any PPLX or PPL item when -- and only when -- there is a PPLC that (a) has the same named time zone and (b) is within a given latitude+longitude of it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1426400 Title: Time zone selection is really weird To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1426400/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs