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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-04-08 18:34:08 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-04-08 18:34:08 +0200
commitb90930c73b1c82a3dc4d4f2603799993f042aaff (patch)
tree29eb1764fb92bde8a58984062da40895921b50df /man/timedatectl.xml
parenta4921cf4e2acde70eeaa0da8f040da6a058206b4 (diff)
man: avoid confusion regarding "time synchronization state"
Also, update example in the timedatectl man page to match the actual timedatectl output.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/timedatectl.xml')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man/timedatectl.xml b/man/timedatectl.xml
index 187a7ad26a..2d42b41d5e 100644
--- a/man/timedatectl.xml
+++ b/man/timedatectl.xml
@@ -105,11 +105,11 @@
<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>
@@ -166,12 +166,12 @@
<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>
@@ -195,12 +195,12 @@
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.