gnome-control-center datetime problem

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

Using gnome-control-center-3.10.3, when I change the time setting to automatic/NTP I get the following error.

As per google, systemd might be required, but my system does not use systemd - what provides 
org.freedesktop.timedate1?

Regards
John

gnome-control-center datetime

(gnome-control-center:6296): datetime-cc-panel-WARNING **: Timezone '(null)' is unhandled, setting 
Europe/London as default

(gnome-control-center:6296): datetime-cc-panel-WARNING **: Could not set system to use NTP: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.timedate1 was not provided by 
any .service files