Timedate Daemon
TimeDate Daemon is a system service that can be used to control the system time and related settings.
This is the replacement of systemd service that control the org.freedesktop.timedate1 D-Bus interface for GNU Linux distributions which does not have a systemd.
You can find specification at: Freedesktop.org
TimeDate Daemon supports interactive parameter which can be used to control whether PolKit should interactively ask the user for authentication credentials if required. But also, if interactive way is not applicable, users permissions can be set by PolKit rules in the /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.timedate1.rules file. For example, a system administrator can add Desktop-users into wheel group to give them rights to access the org.freedesktop.timedate1 D-Bus interface.
Requirements:
| Package | min Version | |
|---|---|---|
| glib-2.0 | >= | 2.76 |
| gobject-2.0 | >= | 2.76 |
| gio-2.0 | >= | 2.76 |
| polkit-gobject-1 | >= | 123 |
| libpcre2-8 | >= | 10.36 |
| dbus | >= | 1.13.18 |
How to Build:
meson setup --prefix=/usr . ..
ninja
ninja install
Supported Distributions:
- Radix cross Linux
- Slackware (needed litle changes in timeconfig script)
For other systems the special implementation of NTP daemon control should be developed.
TODO:
- timedatectl (simply it can be writen in Bash).