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[Running Ubuntu Gnome 15.10]

I recently brought my computer from PST to EST in North America. Once in EST my laptop did not update the timezone. I tried toggling the "Auto Time Zone" switch which had no effect. Finally, I rebooted the machine which also didn't have an effect.

Running /usr/lib/geoclue-2.0/demos/where-am-i doesn't return any result.

EDIT [Now on Ubuntu 24.04]: This seems to be broken again, all the past solutions below no longer fix the issue, running the where-am-i geoclue demo now results in an error:

** (where-am-i:68936): CRITICAL **: 10:27:32.351: Failed to connect to GeoClue2 service: Timeout was reached
labarna
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For Ubuntu 18.04+ make sure Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services is set to "On."

glortho
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I seem to have fixed this issue by installing gnome-clocks which might serve as the hook gnome-shell uses to get the location data for the time-zone.

labarna
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