I have a brand new Dell Precision Tower 5000 Series (5810) that just came with Ubuntu 14.04 pre-installed. Instead of upgrading to 16.04, I made a fresh installation (no dual boots).
I was not able to boot from USB, but luckily I had a DVD with 16.04. Installation using the DVD went with no problem.
During the installation, I was able to select Singapore as my location. However, once I opened Ubuntu for the first time, I noticed the following:
It is showing a totally incorrect time, around 7h ahead.
It claims it is Jakarta time (which is not) when I explicitly selected Singapore during the installation.
It shows weekday and month in Indonesian, even when everything is set to English.
It does not find anymore "Singapore" in the Time & Date settings, even when I was able to select it during installation.
Please check the images attached, at the time of writing this it's 9:20AM, not 4:20PM.
Many thanks!
Apparently this is a bug since I see no choice for Singapore on any of my Ubuntu 16.04 machines. 16.04 has been out for a long time and Singapore is a major Republic. I'd be surprised if there isn't a bug report already issued on this.
As a work around I suppose you'll need to select another location that's in the same time zone as you are. Phnom Penh perhaps?
In xUbuntu 16.04 at least presents time zome 'Asia/Singapore'. But you can still use any time zone with GMT+8 like Malaysia's or China's time zones.
For time, go to Time & Date -> clock -> Time in auto-detected location work for me (I am in Singapore)
For weekday and month in Indonesian, go to Language Support -> Regional Format then change to English and reboot.
Start a Terminal and use the following command:
I logged an issue directly related to this; great if someone else who hits this can confirm it, so the bug gets onto the radar: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1826832