Re: gnome-control-center datetime problem

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 14:18 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > Sent: Friday, 09 May, 2014 18:16
> > To: John Frankish
> > Cc: gnomecc-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: gnome-control-center datetime problem
> >
> > On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 14:09 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > It requires systemd's timedated or an equivalent API.
> Thanks, but what would be an equivalent API I could use?

What exactly are you trying to achieve here?

You can use systemd's timedated implementation. Or Ubuntu's old systemd
compatible services. I believe some people in the *BSDs are working on
compatible services as well.

If you're on Linux, I'd just use a distribution with systemd instead.

Cheers