From kde-core-devel  Thu Apr 10 17:40:11 2008
From: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:40:11 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Administrator mode in systemsettings
Message-Id: <20080410174011.GA24912 () troll08>
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 06:03:39PM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> How about the attached patch?
>
the clock will always be a few seconds later than requested - due to the
password entering latency. one'd have to start the helper in advance and
make it talk with the "master" via a pipe to avoid that.

fwiw, the code contains a hwclock call - afaict, this is just bogus.
for example, it does not account for the clock being in gmt/local mode.
this should be definitely left up to the system's shutdown scripts.