systemd-timedated.service

systemd
Developer Lennart Poettering lennart@poettering.net
systemd-timedated.service 8
systemd-timedated.service systemd-timedated Time and date bus mechanism

`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 developer documentation for information about the APIs `systemd-timedated` provides.

## See Also

systemd 1, timedatectl 1, localtime 5, hwclock 8