S6-CLOCKADD(8)

📦 version 2.8.0.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 S6-CLOCKADD — the system manager's manual, but make it cute

okay so bestie, you're looking at s6-clockadd from section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, and honestly? it's giving tiny-but-mighty. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

s6-clockadd — adjust the system clock depending on the input that a time client hands you 🕰️

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

s6-clockadd [-f] [-e errmax]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the tea: s6-clockadd sits there reading its stdin, and it's expecting input from a program like s6-taiclock(8) or s6-sntpclock(8) — you know, the ones that go get the time from a time server. 🌐

Then it does the main character thing: it sets the system clock so that the system time becomes the exact time the server gave it. And then? It exits 0. Slay. 💅

bestie, important: s6-clockadd must be run as root. 🔑 The client that fetches the time from the time server, though? That one does not have to be root. lowkey the best division of labour tbh.

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • -f — Force. Normally s6-clockadd exits 1 if the time discrepancy it reads from stdin is bigger than errmax milliseconds. But with this flag set, it'll print a warning message and still set the system time, and then exit 0. It's like "yeah I know, but we're doing it anyway" energy. 🙈
  • -e errmax — Accept a maximum time discrepancy of errmax milliseconds. By default, errmax is 2000. ⏱️

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

This man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-networking/s6-clockadd.html — go check the source, iykyk 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Laurent Bercot
  • Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie — this one's from Debian, dated September 29, 2021, and it's S6-CLOCKADD(8) all the way down. now go sync that clock, you icon. ⭐🌈💖

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