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. SEE ALSO systemd(1), timedatectl(1), localtime(5), hwclock(8) NOTES 1. developer documentation http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated systemd 219 SYSTEMD-TIMEDATED.SERVICE(8)