diff --git a/chapter07/clock.xml b/chapter07/clock.xml index 40006fdcf..f1f8d8eda 100644 --- a/chapter07/clock.xml +++ b/chapter07/clock.xml @@ -72,4 +72,27 @@ EOF Please note that timedatectl command can be used only on a system booted with systemd. + + Network Time Synchronization + + Starting with version 214, systemd ships a daemon called + systemd-timesyncd which can be used to + synchronize the system time with remote NTP servers. + + The daemon is not intended as a replacement for the well + established NTP daemon, but as a client only implementation + of the SNTP protocol which can be used for less advanced + tasks and on a resource limited systems. + + To enable the systemd-timesyncd daemon, + issue the following command: + +systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd + + The /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf file + can be used to change the NTP servers that + systemd-timesyncd synchronizes with. + + +