NTP switch in gnome-control-center is broken

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 09.10.14 12:44, Matthias Clasen (mclasen at redhat.com) wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 17:46 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In general: we try to make timesyncd a good *client* for NTP, and
> > focus on that. Unlike ntpd or chrony it will not accept NTP requests,
> > it will not contain drivers for hardware clocks. timesyncd is supposed
> > to be a generic daemon for everything the 99% of devices that just
> > need correct time, and nothing more.
> > 
> > In this light our plans are actually to add a minimal PTP client as
> > well, that is supposed to just work, if PTP is supported on a
> > LAN. Also, in contrast to ntpd we really want to make sure to optimize
> > timesyncd for power management, and reduce wakeups. In fact, we are
> > looking to syncing about the NTP syncs to wakeups of the network hw,
> > so that we never end up waking up hardware for the clock.
> > 
> > So, anyway, I am pretty sure that timesyncd at least in the middle
> > term is the way to go for all clients.
> 
> The functionality you described sounds 'good enough' for the workstation
> use case to me. The one thing that makes me tend towards 'stick with
> chrony' for now is the (lack of) dhcp configuration under nm - which is
> what we'll have to use for networking on the desktop for the forseeable
> future...

NTP servers supplied via DHCP is a nice feature (and as mentioned
works fine between networkd and timesyncd), but then again, it's
actually not very common that DHCP servers supply that information.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat