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 > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list