Impossible to set date in 11.3.0?

[Jerry Vonau]

On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 18:25 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> File a ticket and someone may jump in to tackle it.
> 
> -walter
> 

see http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11004


> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 2:26 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
> >> Surely we can distinguish secured from unsecured laptops and allow
> >> unsecured laptops to set the date?
> >
> > Sure. Nobody's done the UI work for that, Sugar-side.
> >
> >  - In all builds, hwclock is available from cli
> >  - On 11.3.x  and earler builds you can install the appropriate gnome
> > control panel.
> >  - On 12.x.y builds, gnome control panels aren't so easy to make work,
> > 'cause they need clutter.
> >
> > Also, we should run ntp by default, or at least ntpdate on an NM hook.

We do that in Australia builds, need nptdate to be added to the image,
setup /etc/sysconfig/ntpdate and the NM hook.

# toggle setting the rtc
sed -i -e "s/SYNC_HWCLOCK=no/SYNC_HWCLOCK=yes/" /etc/sysconfig/ntpdate 

# call ntpdate when connected
cat << EOF > /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/10-ntpdate
#!/bin/sh

if [ "\$2" = "up" ]; then
    if [ ! -e /tmp/ntpdate ]; then
        touch /tmp/ntpdate
        /sbin/service ntpdate restart || :
    fi
fi
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/10-ntpdate

Jerry