On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 08:29:12PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Aug 19, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >Using DHCP will only tell you what the > >DHCP admin's preferred timezone setting is, which won't necessarily > >match > >and also doesn't give you any idea whether the user wants the > >system's clock > >to be set in UTC or not. > The proposed RFC allows the dhcp administrator to tailor the response > based on the MAC address of the client. Most won't, but it should be > possible if you want to. I think you're missing the point that the maintainer of the newly-installed Debian system may *disagree* with the TZ information provided by the dhcp admin. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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