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Clock: add UTC Timezone #1641

Closed t-8ch closed 1 year ago

t-8ch commented 2 years ago

It would be nice if the worldclock allowed the display of plain UTC time.

ASerbinski commented 1 year ago

UTC isn't a timezone so it wouldn't make sense to use it as a timezone.

Try using GMT+0 instead.

t-8ch commented 1 year ago

There is also no real GMT+0 timezone in the list. There is London/Dublin but these observer DST. The point of my request is to have a time that is always UTC+0/GMT+0 and does not observe DST.

flawedworld commented 1 year ago

We use the timezones provided by AOSP.

t-8ch commented 1 year ago

A patch would not be accepted?

ASerbinski commented 1 year ago

The problem would be in maintaining the patch, plus its not needed. There are locations that use GMT+0 that don't jump out seasonally like great britain. Check some of the cities in Africa. I believe there are about 20 cities listed for GMT+0.

t-8ch commented 1 year ago

Thanks, it seems "Abidjan" fits. Let's hope they don't randomly change it sometime :-)

ASerbinski commented 1 year ago

I think in general, the world is moving away from seasonal clock changes since the concept is obsolete. There's certainly been a lot of talk about sticking to the same time year round here in north america.

paride commented 1 year ago

For reference, this is the 10 years old upstream bug report about adding UTC to AOSP: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36957647.

The play store version of the Google clock does have UTC, the AOSP version still doesn't.