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. I think it makes sense for static routes and such things to be handled by NM, but we quickly start getting to things that I don't think _should_ be handled by NM itself. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
