On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 15:59 +0200, Michael Ströder wrote:
> HI!
> Anybody aware of an attribute type dedicated to store the time zone of a user?

Nope (but timezone codes are just strings).  I think this would be the
'default' timezone of a user;  but a user can easily move between time
zones.  It is actually pretty difficult [for scheduling applications] to
determine what is the correct thing to do with TZ sometimes.

> It would also make sense if pam_ldap/nss_ldap could query the locale of the
> user from the user's directory entry and set the locale accordingly. Anybody
> doing something like this?

Wow, that would be awesome.  But I'm not holding my breath.


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