man: update timedatectl and systemd-timedated

diff --git a/man/systemd-timedated.service.xml b/man/systemd-timedated.service.xml
index c8d74ddef2c7d0aba2e6ff9f2a6e2f7f98c89ca8..9a37d89a40c36564552120a7db3c8daca0a10346 100644 (file)
--- a/man/systemd-timedated.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-timedated.service.xml
@@ -61,13 +61,34 @@
     <filename>systemd-timedated</filename> provides.</para>
   </refsect1>
 
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Environment</title>
+
+    <variablelist class='environment-variables'>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><varname>$SYSTEMD_TIMEDATED_NTP_SERVICES</varname></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Colon-separated list of unit names of NTP client services.
+        If not set, then
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timesyncd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+        is used. See the entries of NTP related commands of
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+        for details about this.</para>
+
+        <para>Example:
+        <programlisting>SYSTEMD_TIMEDATED_NTP_SERVICES=ntpd.service:chronyd.service:systemd-timesyncd.service</programlisting>
+        </para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
+  </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
     <title>See Also</title>
     <para>
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>hwclock</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+      <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>hwclock</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timesyncd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
     </para>
   </refsect1>
 

diff --git a/man/timedatectl.xml b/man/timedatectl.xml
index e8d9cb84b9dc02d3b070e35f79e6da21b8aebd8d..02b86b6641ee5ce241aad8cf123d5f13d998b1d3 100644 (file)
--- a/man/timedatectl.xml
+++ b/man/timedatectl.xml
@@ -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: