systemd-timedated (org.freedesktop.timedate1)

D-Bus API of systemd-timedated for getting and setting the system time, timezone, NTP enablement, and RTC-in-local-time policy.

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aid: systemd:org-freedesktop-timedate1
name: systemd-timedated (org.freedesktop.timedate1)
description: 'D-Bus API of systemd-timedated for getting and setting the system time, timezone, NTP enablement,
  and

  RTC-in-local-time policy.

  '
humanURL: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/org.freedesktop.timedate1.html
baseURL: dbus:org.freedesktop.timedate1
tags:
- D-Bus
- NTP
- Time
- Timedated
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/org.freedesktop.timedate1.html
- type: InterfaceDefinition
  url: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/man/org.freedesktop.timedate1.xml