From their documentation, it certainly sounds like it is: > Cockpit uses systemd and the DBus APIs it provides to configure and monitor core aspects of the sys

From their documentation, it certainly sounds like it is: > Cockpit uses systemd and the DBus APIs it provides to configure and monitor core aspects of the system. Use of alternate system APIs are not currently implemented. and > Cockpit configures the system time and time zone via the timedated daemon. To perform similar tasks from the command line use the timedatectl command That's a systemd specific daemon. http://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-systemd.html http://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-systemd.html Edit: Also please note that I'm not disparaging Cockpit nor systemd, just pointing out that (according to their documentation linked above) it is tied to systemd which may be an issue for some.