Re: RFC 4833 / TimeZone by DHCP

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 20:26 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 19:08 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > 
> > > Or the international clock listens and makes the change since it knows
> > > how to do that.
> > 
> > Exactly; that's the ideal case.  I want the model to be pull _from_
> > NetworkManager provided information, not have NM push stuff out.
> 
> I'm a bit late into the conversation.  How would this work?
> 
> 1. Clock listens for "network went up/down"
> 
> 2. When the network goes up, the clock asks NM for "gimme the DHCP data"
> 
> 3. Clock sets the timezone.
> 
> What happens if you don't have a clock applet? :)
> 
> Should NM just have a magic script to set the timezone?

NM itself shouldn't do that, something else (NetworkManagerDispatcher or
another tool) should be listening to the updates and grabbing the data.

Dan