[Freeipa-devel] Minor change to host based access control time stamp related logic

[Dmitri Pal]

Sumit Bose wrote:
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> Dmitri Pal schrieb:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> After some evaluation and research the original idea of including
>> timezone into time stamps stored in HBAC rules does not fly well since
>> different platforms have different level of support for modern time zone
>> definitions.
>>
>> See details on the following page:
>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Representing_Objects_in_DS_%28Part_1_-_Base_objects%29#Expressing_Time_in_a_Rule
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>>
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> Is there already a scheme how 'week-of-the-month' is calculated. The
> 'week-of-the-year' is defined by ISO8601, but after a short search I
> haven't found anything similar for 'week-of-the-month'.
>
>   
I am not aware of any.
I am planning to create a library that will deal with these time stamps 
and validate HBAC rules.
I will propose the interface probably later this week.
Long weekend is looming :-)

Thanks
Dmitri


> bye,
> Sumit
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