systemd-timedated.service(8) Time and date bus mechanism

Other Alias

systemd-timedated

SYNOPSIS

systemd-timedated.service

/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 m[blue]developer documentationm[][1] for information about the APIs systemd-timedated provides.