Can we depend on timedated?

[Eric Hameleers]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2023, A. Wilcox wrote:

>>> 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?
>
> Using org.freedesktop.timedate1 instead of the current solution
> removes no complexity, it just shifts it from KDE to distributions.
> Adélie, Devuan, FreeBSD (+ other BSDs), Gentoo, Illumos, etc.

Add Slackware to that list. We do not ship systemd. We do use eudev 
and elogind but are not shipping any implementation of the timedate1 
d-bus service.

Cheers, Eric

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