Comments on: LFCA: Learn to Manage Time and Date in Linux – Part 6 https://www.tecmint.com/manage-time-and-date-in-linux/ Tecmint - Linux Howtos, Tutorials, Guides, News, Tips and Tricks. Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:41:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: dragonmouth https://www.tecmint.com/manage-time-and-date-in-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1481580 Sun, 25 Apr 2021 15:41:11 +0000 https://www.tecmint.com/?p=42101#comment-1481580 “The timedatectl command is a new utility used in MODERN Linux systems such as Ubuntu 18.04, RHEL 8 & CentOS 8. It’s a replacement of the date command which was prominent in the OLD SysVinit systems.”

(emphases mine)

That statement insinuates that systemd is the new standard and SysVinit, and other non-systemd inits, are totally deprecated, which is very far from the truth. Whether a Linux distro is Modern or OLD is determined by the kernel version it uses, not the version of any of the distro’s components, even if it is the init.

There still are many MODERN Linux systems, such as Gentoo, PCLinuxOS, Devuan, Artix, and others that use SysVinit, runit, or other inits rather than systemd.

BTW – Ubuntu 18.04 can in no way be considered MODERN as Ubuntu 21.04 has been already released.

“There are two main utilities used to check time and date on a Linux system.”

You should differentiate right up front which command is used by distros using systemd as init and which command is used by distros using non-systemd inits.

Somehow you did not provide the “date” command options for setting time zone, date & time, and how to sync with NTP servers.

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