F19 Installer a little better, but...

[Gavin Flower]

On 14/06/13 11:08, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/14/13 06:57, Gavin Flower wrote:
>> On 14/06/13 10:43, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 10:23 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote:
>>>> I think it would be a very good idea to be able to systematically check, & change settings if necessary - so some way of it systematically presenting the spokes would be good (in this aspect, the old way was better). I know I keep forgetting to set the correct tome zone! Who lives in New York? 'Everybody' I know lives in Auckland! I think it would probably be better _NOT_ to set a default time zone - joking aside, most people do not live in New York.
>>> Since Final TC1 or so, it now tries to pick the correct timezone by geolocation. It seems pretty accurate from the results reported so far.
>> Well I am physically in Auckland, New Zealand- but I may have an IPv4 address associated with Christchurch, New Zealand (blame my ISP!).  Either way, I am definitely not in New York!
>>
>> Possibly, people should be given an option to either confirm or to change?
> Ahhh....  There certainly is the option to change...  On the"Installation Summary" page there is a "Date & Time" option to change it....
>
> Anyway, what do you get when you go to this URL (no trailing slashes)
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> https://geoip.stg.fedoraproject.org/city
>
> or
>
> https://geoip.stg.fedoraproject.org/city?ip=18.0.0.1    Where you replace the IP address with your public IP address.
>
>
{"region_name": "Auckland", "area_code": 0, "latitude": -36.86669921875, 
"region": "E7", "dma_code": 0, "country_name": "New Zealand", 
"postal_code": null, "city": "Auckland", "longitude": 
174.76669311523438, "time_zone": "Pacific/Auckland", "metro_code": 0, 
"country_code": "NZ", "country_code3": "NZL"}

Interesting.  A couple of years ago, an online map put us in Christchurch.

However, the F19 TC3 installer gave me a time zone of New York!