Can we depend on timedated?

[A. Wilcox]

On Jul 28, 2023, at 4:02 AM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
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> Yeah, the timedated dbus interface is the right way for KDE to be writing a tool that needs to set those settings, there's nothing else available.  It needs a build time option to be switched off where distros don't want to provide that but there's no reason why we should be held back and provide less features for those who want to support those features.
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> Jonathan



The way I understood the initial post to the list, the question was whether timedate1 was widely available so that code could be simplified.  The answer could be “no” depending on who you ask and your definition of “wide”.  (I definitely am on the “no” side.)

I did not see any new features being proposed.  Perhaps a hypothetical NTP sync toggle could depend on it.  At any rate, changing to depend on timedate1 removes features on all BSDs, Illumos, and some Linux distributions but as far as I can tell no new features would be added in the process.

If that is incorrect I would welcome a correction, and that would be a different debate.

Best,
-A.