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by beagle3 2605 days ago
YMMV, but in my experience, if for whatever reason your clock is wrong by an hour in one direction (either ahead or after, don't remember), openntpd will take ages to skew it back, whereas chrony (and ntpd) do the right thing.
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openntpd can set the clock on startup, but it requires a non-default `-s` option [0]. In chrony it's optional and controlled by an `initstepslew` parameter [1] which also considers a threshold to determine if the clock needs a large adjustment or if it's fine to just skew it as normal.

0: https://man.openbsd.org/ntpd

1: https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/doc/3.4/chrony.conf.html