Impossible to set date in 11.3.0?

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Thx.  That covers part of the issue, but not the Sugar control panel part.

OK, now there is Sugarlabs #3829 as well

Tony

> 
> -walter
> 
> >
> >
> >> 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
> >
> >
> 
> 
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