Hi, On 01/29/2014 01:59 PM, Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello,
Am Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2014 schrieb Lukas Ocilka:
GeoIP used by Installer - Approval has been given - No decision on implementation yet
Just as an idea - besides automatically setting the location, GeoIP could also help with the BIOS clock settings (local time vs UTC).
Get the current time from a NTP server and compare it to to the (based on the location) "expected" time. This should tell you if the BIOS clock is set in UTC or local time.
Needless to say that you can't expect people to have the clock set very exact, so the time matching should be fuzzy with at least +/- 10 minutes difference allowed.
Actually, this sounds like an interesting idea. To get this implemented has only one prerequisite: Find a reliable service, providing the location. If you use any of the public server, you may easily happen to lose this functionality the day after release of openSUSE :-/ It would be great if openSUSE could provide its own geo-location server. Jiri -- Regards, Jiri Srain Project Manager --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: jsrain@suse.com Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 084 659 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 084 001 Czech Republic http://www.suse.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org