On 2017-02-09, Eric Brown <br...@fastmail.com> wrote: > Dear List, > > I've recently learned (and discovered) that time in VM's is tricky > business. I'm looking for the least stupid way to keep any semblance of > time in vmd instances while I hungrily await a "correct solution" to > descend from the heavens. > > I've disabled openntpd, installed ntp package (but not its daemon). Now > I am running ntpdate every minute from cron. It seems to keep the > clock, well, within a minute. > > Can anyone think of a better solution to this problem?
Not a hugely better solution, but rdate(8) is in base, so at least you don't need the ntp package..
