[Bug 1895716] Re: Ubiqutiy erroneously sees North Idaho in US Mountain Time

[Erich Eickmeyer]

A simple check with https://geoip.ubuntu.com/lookup turns up this issue
for me:

<Response>
  <Ip>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</Ip> <!-- REDACTED -->
  <Status>OK</Status>
  <CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
  <CountryCode3>USA</CountryCode3>
  <CountryName>United States</CountryName>
  <RegionCode>ID</RegionCode>
  <RegionName>Idaho</RegionName>
  <City>Coeur D'alene</City>
  <ZipPostalCode>83815</ZipPostalCode>
  <Latitude>47.7248</Latitude>
  <Longitude>-116.7890</Longitude>
  <AreaCode>208</AreaCode>
  <TimeZone>America/Denver</TimeZone>
</Response>

Everything except the TimeZone field returns incorrect. Again,
everything north of the Salmon River should return America/Los Angeles.

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Title:
  Ubiqutiy erroneously sees North Idaho in US Mountain Time

Status in geoip-database package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When installing Ubuntu on any machine connected to the internet in
  North Idaho (the panhandle north of the Salmon river), the time zone
  is erroneously detected as being in Mountain time.

  I believe this bug stems from the idea that the entire state of Idaho,
  and indeed the most popular portion, is in Mountain time. However, the
  Northern panhandle is in Pacific time. The Salmon river is used to
  divide time zones in Idaho as it spans from the crest of the
  Bitterroot mountains at the Idaho/Montana border to the Snake River at
  the Idaho/Oregon border.

  This includes all cities north of the Salmon river in Idaho such as
  Moscow (home to the University of Idaho), Lewiston, Orofino, Coeur
  d'Alene, Grangeville, Sandpoint, and Bonners Ferry.

  I realize that the location is being detected via IP, so it shouldn't
  be too hard to implement this separation.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  Uname: Linux 5.8.8-surface x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu45
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Tue Sep 15 10:17:35 2020
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-09-15 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Alpha amd64 (20200910)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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