<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 7:02 AM vishwa <<a href="mailto:vishwa@linux.vnet.ibm.com" target="_blank">vishwa@linux.vnet.ibm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hello community,<br>
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<p>Would be really great if there is any feedback on this.</p>
<p>Have a happy holidays !!<br>
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<p>!! Vishwa !!</p>
<div>On 12/11/19 3:24 PM, vishwa wrote:<br>
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ElaineX wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="color:windowtext">></span><b> Do we need
this going forward ?</b>: I am being asked by UX team
about the need of this and I mentioned I would get the
community feedback on this. Although, I feel this level of
granularity gives control over how we can manage time, it
would not justify the complexity if the customers don't
appreciate it. Removing the TimeOwner would make the code a
lot simpler.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Hi,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I am
coming from the UX side of how we set the date time
settings page up for phosphor-webui downstream recently.
We switched our page to use Redfish, here’s how ours is
set up now:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">There is
no longer a “time owner” and the setting is either:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">NTPEnabled:
true or false<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">If false,
we are not allowing the user to set the time, because the
BMC is synching from the host time and therefore any
settings we made to the time on the BMC would be
overwritten. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">If true,
we use the NTP server(s) the user provides.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">We are
testing this currently.</span></p>
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Hi, Thank you for the response. From what I interpreted:<br>
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<div>- TimeOwner is not settable via GUI<br>
- Irrespective of NTP setting, the user is not allowed to set
the time on BMC<br>
- BMC is syncing the time from Host.<br>
- This means, the current TimeOwner is "Host" and NTP is off.
Is that being set as default ?<br>
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I am requesting for feedback from the community on the need of
TimeOwner feature that we have in Settings and timemanager code.<br>
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!! Vishwa !!<br>
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</blockquote></div>My 2cents here along with a few questions:<div>- how does the current time manager interact with systemd-timesyncd?<br><div>- >From my experience, BMC time can drift a lot easily and it is more useful to have the BMC time synced externally</div><div>- Whether NTP or host time is preferred should be left to the platform designer to decide</div><div>- sounds like it would be more straightforward to have the 'Owner' reflect one time source: NTP/IPMI/Redfish<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Regards,<div>Kun</div></div></div></div></div></div>