Re: RFC 4833 / TimeZone by DHCP

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 09:38 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:07 +0200, Tambet Ingo wrote:
> > On Dec 3, 2007 11:06 AM, Dominique Leuenberger
> > <Dominique Leuenberger tmf-group com> wrote:
> > > As an international traveling user (mostly inside our company) I would like very much to have the ability to have an accurate, local time on my system wherever I am.
> > > RFC 4833 aims directly at this and allows network administrators to push out via DHCP the current time zone (which can easily configured).
> > >
> > > Would it be possible to implement this into our NM?
> > 
> > NM just gained the ability to support static routes from DHCP
> > (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2007-November/msg00173.html),
> > if anyone's interested in adding time zone support, using that patch
> > as a template should make it pretty easy. The only tricky part may be
> > the actual setting of the time zone in such a way that it would work
> > on all distros.
> 
> Although, I don't want to stuff every option for things like this into
> NM.  Since obsoleting dhcdbd, what I'd like to see is this:
> 
> a) NM exports a D-Bus interface (the most likely object for this is the
> Connection that just got activated) that allows things to query the DHCP
> information.  This interface sends out signals when the DHCP information
> is cleared/updated/etc
> 
> b) NetworkManagerDispatcher listens for these signals and executes
> scripts to do things with them, or something like that.

Or the international clock listens and makes the change since it knows
how to do that.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.