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<refentry id="timedatectl" conditional='ENABLE_TIMEDATED'
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>timedatectl</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<contrib>Developer</contrib>
<firstname>Lennart</firstname>
<surname>Poettering</surname>
<email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>timedatectl</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>timedatectl</refname>
<refpurpose>Control the system time and date</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>timedatectl <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg choice="req">COMMAND</arg></command>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>timedatectl</command> may be used to query and
change the system clock and its settings.</para>
<para>Use
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
to initialize the system time zone for mounted (but not booted)
system images.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Options</title>
<para>The following options are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--no-ask-password</option></term>
<listitem><para>Do not query the user for authentication for
privileged operations.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--adjust-system-clock</option></term>
<listitem><para>If <command>set-local-rtc</command> is invoked
and this option is passed, the system clock is synchronized
from the RTC again, taking the new setting into account.
Otherwise, the RTC is synchronized from the system
clock.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="host" />
<xi:include href="user-system-options.xml" xpointer="machine" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
<xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="no-pager" />
</variablelist>
<para>The following commands are understood:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>status</command></term>
<listitem><para>Show current settings of the system clock and
RTC, including whether network time synchronization is
on. Note that whether network time synchronization is on
simply reflects whether the
<filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename> unit is
enabled. Even if this command shows the status as off, a
different service might still synchronize the clock with the
network.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>set-time [TIME]</command></term>
<listitem><para>Set the system clock to the specified time.
This will also update the RTC time accordingly. The time may
be specified in the format "2012-10-30
18:17:16".</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>set-timezone [TIMEZONE]</command></term>
<listitem><para>Set the system time zone to the specified
value. Available timezones can be listed with
<command>list-timezones</command>. If the RTC is configured to
be in the local time, this will also update the RTC time. This
call will alter the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename>
symlink. See
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more information.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>list-timezones</command></term>
<listitem><para>List available time zones, one per line.
Entries from the list can be set as the system timezone with
<command>set-timezone</command>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>set-local-rtc [BOOL]</command></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. If
<literal>0</literal>, the system is configured to maintain the
RTC in universal time. If <literal>1</literal>, it will
maintain the RTC in local time instead. Note that maintaining
the RTC in the local timezone is not fully supported and will
create various problems with time zone changes and daylight
saving adjustments. If at all possible, keep the RTC in UTC
mode. Note that invoking this will also synchronize the RTC
from the system clock, unless
<option>--adjust-system-clock</option> is passed (see above).
This command will change the 3rd line of
<filename>/etc/adjtime</filename>, as documented in
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>hwclock</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<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>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Exit status</title>
<para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
code otherwise.</para>
</refsect1>
<xi:include href="less-variables.xml" />
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>Show current settings:
<programlisting>$ timedatectl
Local time: Di 2015-04-07 16:26:56 CEST
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)
Network time on: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
RTC in local TZ: no</programlisting>
</para>
<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.
Authenticating as: user
Password: ********
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===</programlisting>
<programlisting>$ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mo 2015-03-30 14:20:38 CEST; 5s ago
Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
Main PID: 595 (systemd-timesyn)
Status: "Using Time Server 216.239.38.15:123 (time4.google.com)."
CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-timesyncd.service
└─595 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd
...</programlisting>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>hwclock</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>date</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>localtime</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timedated.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-timesyncd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>