{ config, lib, ... }: with lib; { options = { services.timesyncd = { enable = mkOption { default = !config.boot.isContainer; defaultText = literalExpression "!config.boot.isContainer"; type = types.bool; description = lib.mdDoc '' Enables the systemd NTP client daemon. ''; }; servers = mkOption { default = config.networking.timeServers; defaultText = literalExpression "config.networking.timeServers"; type = types.listOf types.str; description = lib.mdDoc '' The set of NTP servers from which to synchronise. Note if this is set to an empty list, the defaults systemd itself is compiled with ({0..4}.nixos.pool.ntp.org) apply, In case you want to disable timesyncd altogether, use the `enable` option. ''; }; extraConfig = mkOption { default = ""; type = types.lines; example = '' PollIntervalMaxSec=180 ''; description = lib.mdDoc '' Extra config options for systemd-timesyncd. See [ timesyncd.conf(5)](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/timesyncd.conf.html) for available options. ''; }; }; }; config = mkIf config.services.timesyncd.enable { systemd.additionalUpstreamSystemUnits = [ "systemd-timesyncd.service" ]; systemd.services.systemd-timesyncd = { wantedBy = [ "sysinit.target" ]; aliases = [ "dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service" ]; restartTriggers = [ config.environment.etc."systemd/timesyncd.conf".source ]; # systemd-timesyncd disables DNSSEC validation in the nss-resolve module by setting SYSTEMD_NSS_RESOLVE_VALIDATE to 0 in the unit file. # This is required in order to solve the chicken-and-egg problem when DNSSEC validation needs the correct time to work, but to set the # correct time, we need to connect to an NTP server, which usually requires resolving its hostname. # In order for nss-resolve to be able to read this environment variable we patch systemd-timesyncd to disable NSCD and use NSS modules directly. # This means that systemd-timesyncd needs to have NSS modules path in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. When systemd-resolved is disabled we still need to set # NSS module path so that systemd-timesyncd keeps using other NSS modules that are configured in the system. environment.LD_LIBRARY_PATH = config.system.nssModules.path; preStart = ( # Ensure that we have some stored time to prevent # systemd-timesyncd to resort back to the fallback time. If # the file doesn't exist we assume that our current system # clock is good enough to provide an initial value. '' if ! [ -f /var/lib/systemd/timesync/clock ]; then test -d /var/lib/systemd/timesync || mkdir -p /var/lib/systemd/timesync touch /var/lib/systemd/timesync/clock fi '' + # workaround an issue of systemd-timesyncd not starting due to upstream systemd reverting their dynamic users changes # - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/61321#issuecomment-492423742 # - https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/12131 (lib.optionalString (versionOlder config.system.stateVersion "19.09") '' if [ -L /var/lib/systemd/timesync ]; then rm /var/lib/systemd/timesync mv /var/lib/private/systemd/timesync /var/lib/systemd/timesync fi '') ); }; environment.etc."systemd/timesyncd.conf".text = '' [Time] NTP=${concatStringsSep " " config.services.timesyncd.servers} ${config.services.timesyncd.extraConfig} ''; users.users.systemd-timesync = { uid = config.ids.uids.systemd-timesync; group = "systemd-timesync"; }; users.groups.systemd-timesync.gid = config.ids.gids.systemd-timesync; }; }