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authorYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2018-04-17 13:57:27 +0900
committerYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2018-04-17 14:12:54 +0900
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man: update timedatectl and systemd-timedated
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@@ -156,28 +156,11 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><command>set-ntp [BOOL]</command></term>
- <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Controls whether
- network time synchronization is active and enabled (if
- available). This enables and starts, or disables and stops the
- <filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename> unit. It does
- not affect the state of any other, unrelated network time
- synchronization services that might be installed on the
- system. This command is hence mostly equivalent to:
- <command>systemctl enable --now
- systemd-timesyncd.service</command> and <command>systemctl
- disable --now systemd-timesyncd.service</command>, but is
- protected by a different access policy.</para>
-
- <para>Note that even if time synchronization is turned off
- with this command, another unrelated system service might
- still synchronize the clock with the network. Also note that,
- strictly speaking,
- <filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename> does more than
- just network time synchronization, as it ensures a monotonic
- clock on systems without RTC even if no network is
- available. See
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timesyncd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- for details about this.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Controls whether network time synchronization is active
+ and enabled (if available). If the argument is true, this enables and starts the first existed
+ service listed in the environment variable <varname>$SYSTEMD_TIMEDATED_NTP_SERVICES</varname>
+ of <filename>systemd-timedated.service</filename>. If the argument is false, then this disables and
+ stops the all services listed in <varname>$SYSTEMD_TIMEDATED_NTP_SERVICES</varname>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
@@ -197,13 +180,13 @@
<title>Examples</title>
<para>Show current settings:
<programlisting>$ timedatectl
- Local time: Thu 2017-09-21 16:08:56 CEST
- Universal time: Thu 2017-09-21 14:08:56 UTC
- RTC time: Thu 2017-09-21 14:08:56
- Time zone: Europe/Warsaw (CEST, +0200)
- System clock synchronized: yes
-systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
- RTC in local TZ: no</programlisting>
+ Local time: Thu 2017-09-21 16:08:56 CEST
+ Universal time: Thu 2017-09-21 14:08:56 UTC
+ RTC time: Thu 2017-09-21 14:08:56
+ Time zone: Europe/Warsaw (CEST, +0200)
+System clock synchronized: yes
+ NTP service: active
+ RTC in local TZ: no</programlisting>
</para>
<para>Enable network time synchronization: