pragma Singleton // System date, time, and timezone. // // Deliberately NOT backed by the Panama settings store. The timezone and the // network-time setting belong to the machine, not to this desktop: they are // shared with every other session and with services that never see Panama's // JSON. Storing a copy would create a second answer to a question the system // already answers, which is the exact failure this settings rewrite exists to // remove. So this reads and writes `timedatectl` directly and holds no state of // its own beyond what it last observed. // // Setting the timezone or toggling NTP needs privilege. timedatectl asks // polkit, which shows the usual authentication dialog; on refusal the command // fails and the error is surfaced rather than the UI pretending it worked. import Quickshell import Quickshell.Io import QtQuick Singleton { id: root property string timezone: "" property bool ntpEnabled: false property bool ntpSynchronised: false property string localTime: "" property string universalTime: "" property string rtcTime: "" property string lastError: "" property var zones: [] readonly property bool busy: statusQuery.running || zonesQuery.running || writeRun.running // "America/New_York" -> "New York" for display, keeping the region as a // separate field so the list can be grouped and searched sensibly. function regionOf(zone: string): string { const slash = zone.indexOf("/"); return slash < 0 ? zone : zone.slice(0, slash); } function cityOf(zone: string): string { const slash = zone.indexOf("/"); return (slash < 0 ? zone : zone.slice(slash + 1)).replace(/_/g, " "); } Process { id: statusQuery command: ["timedatectl", "show", "-p", "Timezone", "-p", "NTP", "-p", "NTPSynchronized", "-p", "TimeUSec", "-p", "RTCTimeUSec"] stdout: StdioCollector { onStreamFinished: root.parseStatus(this.text) } onExited: (exitCode, exitStatus) => { if (exitCode !== 0) root.lastError = "Could not read the system clock settings."; } } Process { id: zonesQuery command: ["timedatectl", "list-timezones"] stdout: StdioCollector { onStreamFinished: { root.zones = this.text.split("\n") .map(line => line.trim()) .filter(line => line.length > 0); } } } Process { id: writeRun onExited: (exitCode, exitStatus) => { // A polkit refusal and a bad value both land here. Neither should // leave the UI showing a value the system did not take, so the // status is re-read either way. root.lastError = exitCode === 0 ? "" : "The system rejected that change, or authentication was cancelled."; root.refresh(); } } Component.onCompleted: { root.refresh(); zonesQuery.running = true; } function parseStatus(text: string): void { for (const line of text.split("\n")) { const split = line.indexOf("="); if (split < 0) continue; const key = line.slice(0, split); const value = line.slice(split + 1); if (key === "Timezone") root.timezone = value; else if (key === "NTP") root.ntpEnabled = value === "yes"; else if (key === "NTPSynchronized") root.ntpSynchronised = value === "yes"; } root.lastError = ""; } function refresh(): void { if (!statusQuery.running) statusQuery.running = true; } // Only a timezone the system itself listed is ever passed on, so no // caller-supplied text reaches the command. function setTimezone(zone: string): bool { if (root.zones.indexOf(zone) < 0) { root.lastError = "That is not a timezone this system recognises."; return false; } if (writeRun.running) return false; writeRun.exec(["timedatectl", "set-timezone", zone]); return true; } function setNtp(enabled: bool): bool { if (writeRun.running) return false; writeRun.exec(["timedatectl", "set-ntp", enabled ? "true" : "false"]); return true; } }