Andy Wright wrote:
Virtual machines usually have their own RTC and NTP is essential for
logging system information in conjunction with NTP synchronization logs
to adhere to the policies of businesses or organizations.
Virtual machines have a virtualisation of the physical machine's clock.
Most software timing does not use the RTC, except at boot up, although I
seem to remember that there is an option of using the RTC for ntpd and a
virtual machine's RTC is more likely to reflect the underlying physical
machine's RTC than the software clocks are to track each other.
To the extent that there are legal requirements, I feel that is an issue
that the virtual machine environments need to address, not somthing they
should force onto the users.
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