Bug 90085

Summary:	DOC: timesyncd: documentation about /var/lib/systemd/clock is incomplete
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Florian E. <norrepli>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
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Description Florian E. 2015-04-18 08:44:09 UTC

The documentation at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-timesyncd.service.html says:

> /var/lib/systemd/clock
>   This file contains the timestamp of last successful synchronization.

However, that file is created even if systemd-timesyncd couldn't connect to a server. See src/timesync/timesyncd.c, lines 63-64:

> /* create stamp file with the compiled-in date */
> touch_file("/var/lib/systemd/clock", true, min, uid, gid, 0644);

I wouldn't call creating a file with the timestamp of the systemd build a "successful synchronization".

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2019-08-22 11:09:09 UTC

Fixed in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/74712c9ed9.

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