systemd: enable systemd-timesyncd (and swclock-offset where applicable)

Describe your issue

What's the expected behaviour?

The time should remain correct and should be set automatically via network.

What's the current behaviour?

The time has to be set manually, can't be set via network, GNOME Settings doesn't present a way to set it automatically via network, and it's set back to epoch on reboot.

How to reproduce your issue?

Have a GNOME Shell systemd install on a OnePlus 6.

What device are you using?

OnePlus 6

On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?

• edge (master branch)
• v24.06
• v23.12 (supported until 2024-07-16)
• edge (master_staging_systemd branch)
• I confirm that the issue still is present after running sudo apk upgrade -a

On what environment did you encounter the issue?

Environments

• GNOME Shell on Mobile
• Phosh
• Plasma Mobile
• Sxmo (Wayland/Sway) Please post the output of sxmo_version.sh
• Other: Please fill out

How did you get postmarketOS image?

• from https://images.postmarketos.org
• I built it using pmbootstrap
• It was preinstalled on my device

What's the build date of the image? (in yyyy-mm-dd format)

2024-06-15

Additional information

The systemd-timesyncd package is missing, installing it and rebooting fixes all the issues, and GNOME Settings allows enabling automatic time setting via network. It probably should be installed by default in systemd-based images from the master_staging_systemd branch.

On Android phones, which have a read-only RTC, need also swclock-offset, so the initial time before a network sync is correct too.

changed the description

By Adrien Plazas on 2024-06-16T20:21:56

So apparently !5207 (merged) is supposed to fix it IIUC. Or not, I'm not sure. But at least that MR and this issue are linked now.

By Adrien Plazas on 2024-06-16T20:27:56

changed milestone to %initial systemd support

added systemd label

changed title from systemd: Should install systemd-timesyncd too to systemd: enable systemd-timesyncd (and swclock-offset where applicable)

By jane400 on 2024-06-17T07:11:12

changed the description

By jane400 on 2024-06-17T07:11:12

So it appears that timesyncd is now created as a subpackage. However, it's not installed by default on systemd images, do we need a new issue for that or can it be tracked in this one?

By Justin Zobel on 2024-07-04T03:16:10

Part 1: swclock-offset for OP6 and similar !5337 (closed)

By jane400 on 2024-07-11T15:31:48

fixed by !5339 (merged)

By clayton craft on 2024-07-23T23:37:04

closed