[Bug 940919] Re: clock is not automatically set in live session

[Stéphane Graber]

We "could" try to geolocate from ubiquity when in greeter mode but that's the only way I see us doing something like that.
We already are missing a Language => Default country mapping database so doing Language => timezone would be even more problematic and almost consistently wrong.

Attempting a call to the geolocation API as a Network Manager hook or
something similar might work, doing it in ubiquity wouldn't work for
users choosing to start the live session directly without going through
the greeter.

One problem I see here is code duplication as we're currently quite
carefully calling tzsetup that does all the for us and avoid having a
duplicate copy of the logic from d-i. Having that call earlier in
ubiquity or in a NM hook means duplicating the code and ending up having
to maintain it at both places.

Anyway, marking as wishlist.

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  clock is not automatically set in live session

Status in Casper:
  New
Status in The Date and Time Indicator:
  Confirmed
Status in “indicator-datetime” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Hello
  Launch a live session, choose a a language outside of the UTC  (italian is UTC+1), when  the live session will be launched the clock will be set to UTC instead of localized even if the net is working.
  expected
  A fully localized environenment at startup
  probably related to bug 940908
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.3.90-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.304
  Date: Sat Feb 25 12:42:07 2012
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120225)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
   activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.2-0ubuntu2
   deja-dup                            21.90-0ubuntu1
   gnome-bluetooth                     3.2.2-0ubuntu2
   indicator-datetime                  0.3.90-0ubuntu1

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