<term><command>status</command></term>
<listitem><para>Show current settings of the system clock and
- RTC, including whether NTP is enabled. Note that the NTP state
+ RTC, including whether network time synchronization is
+ enabled. Note that the network time synchronization state
simply reflects whether the
<filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename> unit is
- enabled.</para></listitem>
+ enabled. Even if the status is shown as off with this command
+ another service might still synchronize the network over the
+ network.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><command>set-ntp [BOOL]</command></term>
- <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Controls whether NTP
- based network time synchronization is enabled (if
- available). This enables or disables the
- <filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename>
- unit.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Takes a boolean argument. Controls whether
+ network time synchronous is enabled (if available). This
+ enables or disables the
+ <filename>systemd-timesyncd.service</filename> unit. Note that
+ even if time synchronization is turned off with this command
+ another system service might still synchronize the clock with
+ the network.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
tzset();
printf(" Time zone: %s (%.*s)\n"
- " NTP enabled: %s\n"
+ " Network Time on: %s\n"
"NTP synchronized: %s\n"
" RTC in local TZ: %s\n",
strna(i->timezone), (int) sizeof(a), have_time ? a : "n/a",
" set-timezone ZONE Set system time zone\n"
" list-timezones Show known time zones\n"
" set-local-rtc BOOL Control whether RTC is in local time\n"
- " set-ntp BOOL Control whether NTP is enabled\n",
+ " set-ntp BOOL Control whether network time synchronization is enabled\n",
program_invocation_short_name);
}