*Request For Feedback*: TimeOwner in phosphor-timemanager

[vishwa]

Hello community,

Would be really great if there is any feedback on this.

Have a happy holidays !!

!! Vishwa !!

On 12/11/19 3:24 PM, vishwa wrote:
> On 12/11/19 12:17 AM, Pine, Kathryn ElaineX wrote:
>>
>> >*Do we need this going forward ?*: 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.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> There is no longer a “time owner” and the setting is either:
>>
>> NTPEnabled: true or false
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> If true, we use the NTP server(s) the user provides.
>>
>> We are testing this currently.
>>
>
> Hi, Thank you for the response. From what I interpreted:
>
> - TimeOwner is not settable via GUI
> - Irrespective of NTP setting, the user is not allowed to set the time 
> on BMC
> - BMC is syncing the time from Host.
>    - This means, the current TimeOwner is "Host" and NTP is off. Is 
> that being set as default ?
>
> I am requesting for feedback from the community on the need of 
> TimeOwner feature that we have in Settings and timemanager code.
>
> !! Vishwa !!
>>
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