<listitem><para>Show current settings of the system clock and
RTC, including whether network time synchronization is
- enabled. Note that the network time synchronization state
+ on. Note that whether network time synchronization is on
simply reflects whether the
<filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename> unit is
- enabled. Even if the status is shown as off with this command
- another service might still synchronize the network over the
+ enabled. Even if this command shows the status as off a
+ different service might still synchronize the clock with the
network.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<term><command>set-ntp [BOOL]</command></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Controls whether
- network time synchronous is enabled (if available). This
+ network time synchronization is enabled (if available). This
enables or disables the
<filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename> unit. Note that
- even if time synchronization is turned off with this command
- another system service might still synchronize the clock with
- the network.</para></listitem>
+ even if this command turns time synchronization off a
+ different system service might still synchronize the clock
+ with the network.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
Universal time: Di 2015-04-07 14:26:56 UTC
RTC time: Di 2015-04-07 14:26:56
Time zone: Europe/Berlin (CEST, +0200)
- NTP enabled: yes
+ Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no</programlisting>
</para>
- <para>Enable an NTP daemon:
+ <para>Enable network time synchronization:
<programlisting>$ timedatectl set-ntp true
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.timedate1.set-ntp ===
Authentication is required to control whether network time synchronization shall be enabled.
tzset();
printf(" Time zone: %s (%.*s)\n"
- " Network Time on: %s\n"
+ " Network time on: %s\n"
"NTP synchronized: %s\n"
" RTC in local TZ: %s\n",
strna(i->timezone), (int) sizeof(a), have_time ? a : "n/a",