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| -rw-r--r-- | man/timedatectl.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/timedatectl.xml b/man/timedatectl.xml index e5d0ef4171..187a7ad26a 100644 --- a/man/timedatectl.xml +++ b/man/timedatectl.xml @@ -104,10 +104,13 @@ <term><command>status</command></term> <listitem><para>Show current settings of the system clock and - RTC, including whether NTP is enabled. Note that the NTP state + RTC, including whether network time synchronization is + enabled. Note that the network time synchronization state simply reflects whether the <filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename> unit is - enabled.</para></listitem> + enabled. Even if the status is shown as off with this command + another service might still synchronize the network over the + network.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> @@ -162,11 +165,13 @@ <varlistentry> <term><command>set-ntp [BOOL]</command></term> - <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Controls whether NTP - based network time synchronization is enabled (if - available). This enables or disables the - <filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename> - unit.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Controls whether + network time synchronous 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> </varlistentry> </variablelist> |