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by aarmenaa 1909 days ago
systemd-timesyncd is an SNTP client; that's what an SNTP client does. For a lot of use cases, desktops and even most servers, it's perfectly fine and a whole lot less complex.

I understand it's not a good fit in some cases; our standard server config disables all other NTP clients, systemd-timesyncd included, in favor of Chrony because we are concerned about highly accurate system clocks and slewing. Interestingly, it appears that systemd has some sort of provisions for this. The `timedatectl` command still works and reports that NTP is enabled and synchronized.

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"that's what an SNTP client does"

How so? Compare what msntp does to adjust the time with what systemd-timesync does. Though msntp does have an "immediate" option if you want to be abrupt.