#2412: [Time] Integrate NTP client --------------------------------------+------------------------------ Reporter: diver | Owner: leavengood Type: enhancement | Status: assigned Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: Preferences/Time & Date | Version: R1/Development Resolution: | Keywords: Blocked By: | Has a Patch: 0 Platform: All | Blocking: --------------------------------------+------------------------------ Comment (by leavengood): Hey Hamish, If you want to work on that, that would be great. In fact I was going to ask you in an email to try it as a GCI task, but did not have the time to prepare the task before the end of the GCI. Plus this is a fairly complex task and it was the last week of GCI when I was going to create the task. Anyhow, here is the email: I appreciate your work in adding NetworkTime to Haiku but I think the other developers actually wanted it integrated into the Time prelet. I don't think that was properly explained in the original GCI task. So what I'd like to propose is another GCI task to integrate NetworkTime as a new tab, called (wait for it): Network Time. While you are at it you could make Time use the layout kit (which we could make another GCI task so you get more points.) My thoughts on the UI is checkboxes for the options currently in the NetworkTime menu, a menu field for the server, and the same Edit Server List window (opened by a button) and the Update button and progress bar currently in the NetworkTime window. All that should fit fine with the current size of the Time prelet. Now the other aspect of this is the option to have the time updated periodically. For this I really think we need some sort of scheduled task runner in Haiku, and that is definitely outside the scope of this task. So for now I would not worry about that. -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/2412#comment:7> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.