Travels with Plink and Cthulhu: Location-aware computing

[mdlbear]

One place where location-aware computing would be really useful would be for setting the timezone on a laptop. Of course, in the absence of a GPS in the laptop, you'd need something like location passed in by DHCP.

And I wonder whether ssh passes timezone in the environment. Worth checking.

In other notes, ssh bandwidth between here and home sucks rocks. Seems OK to dreamhost.com; probably a routing problem.

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[meglimir.livejournal.com]

When I worked for ECI our ThinkPad T42s were set up like that - connecting in the Portland office got West Coast time from the network and connecting in the Houston office got Central time. Offsite, or in office but off network, it would ask what time zone you wanted.

[mdlbear]

Sounds useful; may have to do with the fact that you can get an NTP server from DHCP; but I'll have to look into what else you can pass.