I can't get Dubai on my world clock. Also some cities in Asia have names that are spelled weird and I have trouble adding them without taking random guesses as to what they are called. Anybody else noticed this?
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Some major cities not listed on world clock?
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Likely this is due to Romanization of the native languages (for city names). As for cities not being in the list, this is likely due to another more predominate city in the same time zone. Some time-zones are just represented by a single city.
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I was experiencing this too, with exactly the same city, Dubai. Stupid it doesn't have important cities like that. It has the capital of Saudi Arabia though, Riyadh, which is actually more than enough. It has the same time zone.
Yeah, I understand romanization changes. The cities I wanted to include are in Laos and I was able to add them before and then I restored and now can't find them under anything. As far as same time zone goes many cities under the same time zone are listed. I was trying to add Vientiane Laos (which is it's international name as far as I know) and Pakse. Before i think Pakse was listed under Pakxe or Paxe or something and Vientiane started with W and was Wang chang or something odd. I understand it is pronounced like that locally but that has nothing to do with how people lacking that knowledge would search for it.
Anyway it doesn't matter because I can just put in a city that is in the same time zone. That however isn't an excuse for the world clock being so sloppy. Dubai not being there is a major omission.
Maybe they should just let you add a custom city and the current time. This would solve this issue quite nicely.
Anyway it doesn't matter because I can just put in a city that is in the same time zone. That however isn't an excuse for the world clock being so sloppy. Dubai not being there is a major omission.
Maybe they should just let you add a custom city and the current time. This would solve this issue quite nicely.
Well, with UAE, they consider Abu Dhabi as the capital city. I have found that if you are looking for a city, try entering the country or the abbreviation of the country, as I entered UAE and found Abu Dhabi.
As for Laos, I don't see any entries.
They usually only put the capital of the country in the World Clock, but Laos is a major ommission.
I would suggest giving Apple Feedback regarding this.
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As for Laos, I don't see any entries.
They usually only put the capital of the country in the World Clock, but Laos is a major ommission.
I would suggest giving Apple Feedback regarding this.
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I was looking around and many minor American cities are listed but places like Nagoya Japan aren't as well as Johannesburg, Relativelt small town American cities are. Imagine you just bought your 3G phone in Japan in a city it is sold in and it isn't listed. It makes Appple seem like some redneck company founded in biloxi or something.
As I said earlier they should let you customize the phone more but they don't allow it.
Laos used to be listed but doesn't seem to be now.
As I said earlier they should let you customize the phone more but they don't allow it.
Laos used to be listed but doesn't seem to be now.
wow your getting mad because your city isn't listed in the world clock...wtf
i don't live in any of these places nor am I mad.
I was just making a discussion of the limitations of native software.
It does seem odd that Antananarivo, Madagascar is listed, but Birmingham, the second largest city in England, is not. Nor, for that matter, is Birmingham Alabama...
Nagoya Japan (metro area almost 9.000,000) isn't listed, yet Ndjamena (total area 700,000) is. Johannesburg isn't listed either.
A barrel of oil from Dubai, but since Dubai doesn't seem to exist, I'll take an IOU.
mobile which is the state capitol seems to not be on it either. I thought it must be a state or country capitol. I was wrong.
Sacramento also doesn't appear but Cupertino does.
Sacramento also doesn't appear but Cupertino does.
While you're complaining, also note that they need to add the state/province of a city to lists, since the US has Portland, OR and Portland, ME, but the World Clock just says Portland, USA... Which one is it?
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you are making my blood boil? Portland????? where is that??? I am teasing you now and I am not angry.
Our state capital is actually Montgomery
HAHA. Sorry my apologies.
What's funny is that tiny Palo Alto, California is also there, with a population of about 65,000. Why? It's Steve Jobs' home town.
Jobs was born in San Francisco and grew up in Cupertino.