#4859 geoip service is returning America/Montreal as a timezone, which no longer exists
Closed: Fixed None Opened 8 years ago by dshea.

= bug description =
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240812#c10 contains the JSON chunk returned by https://geoip.fedoraproject.org/city for someone living in Montréal. The problem is that it includes "time_zone": "America/Montreal" and that is no longer a valid time zone.

= bug analysis =
IANA removed America/Montreal a couple years ago because it turned out that Montréal and Toronto use and have used the same time and they goofed when they made it.

= fix recommendation =
Return America/Toronto for everywhere that was America/Montreal.


I've submitted a bug report to maxmind where we get our geoip data.

Thanks for the report. ;)

I'm going to close this, since there's nothing we can do here but wait for maxmind to update. ;(

Hopefully they will soon...

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