I would like to suggest a simple option to set the clock manually on orage. I'm dual booting windows so my clock usually screws up when I switch from one OS to another. I know there are several ways of preventing this, (in fact I just used one already) and besides, one could even simply change the time using the terminal. But for the sake of user-friendliness, I think implementing a manual clock feature would make it worth it. Gnome time-admin plugin has it, but on a pure XFCE environment it requires the additional installation of about 200mbs of gnome-exclusive libs, which isn't really worth the disk space, if you just want the option to set your clock manually. In fact, the XFCE version of Linux Mint went as far as including the whole gnome system tools package and associated libs, just for the time-admin tool. Thus, adding this very simple option to orage, could help distros focused in user-friendliness to rely more on a pure XFCE desktop without the need of additional plugins or foreign libraries.
Yes, it is simple to describe and use, but it is not simple to code it. It needs root access and to do that properly is not simple. But I agree, this would be nice.
I understand. I hope this can be considered as a future improvement for the future, then. Until then, thanks for the time (pun very well intended).
[bsd@mon default]$ grep UTC /etc/default/rcS # assume that the BIOS clock is set to UTC time (recommended) #UTC=no # OBSOLETE; see /etc/adjtime and hwclock(8). I also have a multi-boot workstation; though I rarely boot into Win7, but occasionally boot into FreeBSD 32Bit-64Bit, Ubuntu 32Bit-64Bit, Debian 32Bit for development; whereas Debian 64Bit is a default boot option here. I never ever faced any such problem; earlier I used *UTC=no* option, but now a days that's handled either by hwclock(8) or boot parameter or kernel command-line option depending on the distribution. Last but, not the least I also prefer using ntpd or a time update/sync service.
The way I work around this issue is to use 'htpdate' [1][2][3], a minimalist HTTP client that uses internet servers to update the system clock with <1sec precision. This works for most use cases, and avoids the need for fancy NTP protocol access---a luxury in corporate/academic environments. Perhaps Orage could provide a GUI for this functionality? That should be much easier than coding from scratch, I guess. [1] http://www.clevervest.com/foswiki/bin/view/HTP/DownloadC [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization#htpdate [3] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/htpdate
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