systemd-timedated.service, systemd-timedated — Time and date bus mechanism
systemd-timedated.service
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timedated
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 for information about the APIs
systemd-timedated provides.
$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