On Wed, 26 May 2004, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:39 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > Some things I'd like to see: > > - ability to set the clock before anything happens (it is confusing to > > have a running system that thinks RPMs were installed in 1984 or the > > filesystems were created in 2017); a bonus would allow for setting via > > NTP if the network is up > > This comes up occasionally... I'm just not convinced of the tradeoff > between higher complexity vs functionality. Obviously there's some code > that does a lot of this already in system-config-date. The big thing to > convince me would be to have a mockup of the UI (which would need to be > tied in with timezone; I'm very against adding new screens at this > point) As a compromise how about setting up ntp, etc. based on the timeserver info in the dhcp server? Would this be workable? Granted it would not work for machines installed in a non-dhcp environment but it would be a start. Tom
