Can we depend on timedated?

[Neal Gompa]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 9:33 AM Kai Uwe Broulik <kde at privat.broulik.de> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> the other day I was looking into the date and time KCM which is still
> using kdelibs4support and thus cannot be built for Plasma 6 at the moment.
>
> While considering what effort it would take to rewrite it in QML, I
> found that the way the time, date, timezone, etc is set is quite
> complicated with KAuth and various binaries that are called. So my
> question is, to make our lives easier:
>
> Can we depend on timedated, or rather, the DBus service provided under
> the org.freedesktop.timedate1 service on the system bus to delegate all
> the complicated work there?
>

I would think so, though others might disagree with me.

> Are there distributions or platforms (FreeBSD?) we support that do not
> provide this? Is there a replacement shim available that talks the same
> protocol?
>

There is InitWare[1], a systemd port to BSDs. It currently doesn't
build timedated, but it probably could if someone needed it.

Additionally, there is an alternative (currently-Linux centric)
implementation called timedatex[2]. It could probably be ported to
BSDs.

Finally, probably someone could fork out the existing systemd
timedated implementation[3] and port it (using basu[4] for the sd-bus
stuff).

[1]: https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare
[2]: https://github.com/mlichvar/timedatex
[3]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/tree/main/src/timedate
[4]: https://sr.ht/~emersion/basu/


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