Nils Philippsen wrote:
IMO, to make setting this automatically sensible and reliable, you'd
have to have some things first:
- a freely available mapping between "position on earth" and the
corresponding timezone that's kept up to date
- an attached GPS receiver that can be read from Linux
No need for a gps. If the network is configured...
http://www.networldmap.com/TryIt.htm
Google for 'ip location' for a whole slew of them (each varies in
quality, none got my location, but most were accurate enough to get my
time zone). If it's even 90% correct it will greatly reduce the number
of people who have to manually adjust their timezone).
The question is can we find/create an freely available database so we
can put up our own server.
bob
Just the first one makes this a no-go, I haven't been able to dig
up
something like this. I couldn't even find a freely available,
machine-readable coarse map of timezones.
Nils