msd-datetime-mechanism(1)

💖 msd-datetime-mechanism 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the msd-datetime-mechanism(1) page — it lives in the MATE-SETTINGS-DAEMON section of the manual, and honestly? it's a tiny little icon and we're gonna treat it like one. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

msd-datetime-mechanism — set system time via D-Bus 🕐

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

msd-datetime-mechanism

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no args, no drama. she just runs. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, msd-datetime-mechanism is the lil helper that sets the system time via D-Bus. periodt. 🕰️

it's a D-Bus wrapper, which means it gets executed via D-Bus — and here's the slay part — with root privileges. 👑 yes bestie, root. the real deal. no cap.

and what triggers this whole glow-up? the MATE clock applet. that's right, when you go to fix your clock in MATE, this is the mechanism that gets called up to do the actual work. she's not the main character on screen, she's the main character behind the scenes. 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Vangelis Mouhtsis <vangelis@gnugr.org> and Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>. iconic duo, fr fr. ✨

it was originally written for the Debian project (but may be used by others) — so like, it's Debian's baby but everyone's welcome to hang out. 💖

ngl there are no options, no exit statuses, no environment variables, and no SEE ALSO section on this one — she's a short queen and we respect that. 🙈

okay that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 this was MATE-SETTINGS-DAEMON, msd-datetime-mechanism(1), dated Oct 2014 — and yes, we're still obsessed with her. mwah. 💋🎀🦋