Arch Linux global navigation bar Home Packages Forums Wiki Bugs AUR Download #archnavbar systemd-timesyncd From ArchWiki Jump to: navigation , search start content Related articles Time Network Time Protocol daemon OpenNTPD Chrony systemd-networkd systemd From the systemd mailing list : systemd-timesyncd is a daemon that has been added for synchronizing the system clock across the network. It implements an SNTP client. In contrast to NTP implementations such as chrony or the NTP reference server this only implements a client side, and does not bother with the full NTP complexity, focusing only on querying time from one remote server and synchronizing the local clock to it. Unless you intend to serve NTP to networked clients or want to connect to local hardware clocks this simple NTP client should be more than appropriate for most installations. The daemon runs w...