Bug 467093

Summary:	Only major cities are available in the city list
Product:	[Applications] KClock	Reporter:	Ben Guy-Williams <ben2talk>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Devin Lin <espidev>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	hanyoung, nate
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Manjaro
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	attachment-481938-0.html

Description Ben Guy-Williams 2023-03-09 08:23:18 UTC

SUMMARY
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Unable to add specific clock.
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Select `+ Add`
2. Try to set a clock for New Zealand, Aukland. Try to search for `kidderminster` (UK town).
3. No results appear - unable to add clock for New Zealand.

OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Devin Lin 2023-03-09 18:46:46 UTC

That city is likely not in the list, we use the official tz database: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-03-13 19:38:11 UTC

"Auckland" is present, but "Aukland (a misspelling)" is not. "kidderminster" is too small to be included in the city list. Try London.

We could probably improve the error message here to say something like "Check the spelling or try searching for the nearest major city."

Comment 3 Ben Guy-Williams 2023-03-14 00:03:20 UTC

Created attachment 157251 [details]
attachment-481938-0.html

Haha ok. This does work, indeed, but the search is quite limited.

I searched New Zealand and get to it that way on the plasmoid 'Digital Clock 3.0'.
Certainly Kidderminster is not available there also, but the flexibility of searching by country on that Plasma by Martin Klapetek is interesting.
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On Mar 14 2023, at 2:38 am, Nate Graham <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467093
>
> Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> changed:
> What |Removed |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CC| |nate@kde.org
> Summary|Cannot add locations for |Only major cities are
> |clocks in KClock... |available in the city list
> Ever confirmed|0 |1
> Severity|normal |minor
> Status|REPORTED |CONFIRMED
> Keywords| |usability
>
> --- Comment #2 from Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> ---
> "Auckland" is present, but "Aukland (a misspelling)" is not. "kidderminster" is
> too small to be included in the city list. Try London.
>
> We could probably improve the error message here to say something like "Check
> the spelling or try searching for the nearest major city."
>
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