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SYSTEMD-TIMEDATED.SERVICE(8) | systemd-timedated.service | SYSTEMD-TIMEDATED.SERVICE(8) |
NAME¶
systemd-timedated.service, systemd-timedated - Time and date bus mechanism
SYNOPSIS¶
systemd-timedated.service
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timedated
DESCRIPTION¶
systemd-timedated is a system service that may be used as a mechanism to change the system clock and timezone, as well as to enable/disable NTP time synchronization. systemd-timedated is automatically activated on request and terminates itself when it is unused.
The tool timedatectl(1) is a command line client to this service.
See the developer documentation[1] for information about the APIs systemd-timedated provides.
ENVIRONMENT¶
$SYSTEMD_TIMEDATED_NTP_SERVICES
Colon-separated list of unit names of NTP client
services. If not set, then systemd-timesyncd.service(8) is used. See
the entries of NTP related commands of timedatectl(1) for details about
this.
Example:
SYSTEMD_TIMEDATED_NTP_SERVICES=ntpd.service:chronyd.service:systemd-timesyncd.service
SEE ALSO¶
systemd(1), timedatectl(1), localtime(5), hwclock(8), systemd-timesyncd(8)
NOTES¶
- 1.
- developer documentation
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