Re: Bug#352610: Please create a udeb for ntpdate
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 04:47:44PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> We mainly need to determine how we are going to use rdate:
> - for all installations;
> - only for some (sub)arches like nlsu;
> - only if difference between system date/time and rdate date/time is
> greater than x.
> Seems to me there needs to be a link with clock-setup as I guess rdate
> would set the time to UTC. So either clock-setup would need to reset the
> clock if "local time" is selected, or it would have to default to UTC
> too.
> We could even use rdate to guess if clock is set to local time or UTC
> based on the difference between system time and rdate.
For countries with more than 1 timezone, I want to be able to set a default
timezone for the system based on the offset between the system clock and the
remote timeserver as well... :)
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