timedatectl examples, explained
$ timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Paris
- timedatectlquery and change the system clock, time zone and NTP settings
- set-timezoneset the system time zone
- Europe/Parisan argument passed to the command
$ timedatectl status
- timedatectlquery and change the system clock, time zone and NTP settings
- statusshow the current time, time zone and NTP state
$ timedatectl set-ntp true
- timedatectlquery and change the system clock, time zone and NTP settings
- set-ntpenable or disable network time synchronisation
- truean argument passed to the command
timedatectl subcommands
status — show the current time, time zone and NTP stateset-time — set the system clock to the given date/timeset-timezone — set the system time zonelist-timezones — list the known time-zone namesset-ntp — enable or disable network time synchronisationset-local-rtc — store the hardware clock in local time (vs UTC)timesync-status — show details of the running time-sync service
timedatectl flags & options
| --no-pager | do not pipe output into a pager |
| --adjust-system-clock | with set-local-rtc, also update the system clock |
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