[geofft]

> What are you whining about? What DO, Linode, etc. Have to do with anything????

Well, there's a good argument to be made that your VPS provider should be running an accurate time daemon (whatever that might be), and you should just have paravirtualized access to the current time, instead of every VM being expected to run some form of ntpd on its own, and the hypervisor track scores of virtual clocks.

There's even a good argument to be made that running the NTP algorithm in a VM doesn't work: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/...

[atmosx]

Oh I see. I didn't knew that, I just connected the NTPd daemons either to the default NTP server or to the ISPs/Provider's NTPd server. Hm, didn't knew that VM had such issues with time servers.

[xorcist]

It's also documented best practice, at least with VMware and Xen.