Wolfgang,

> I'm trying to understand whether OpenVZ does anything special about
> time, and thus whether I need to take care to somehow synchronize the
> clocks of HN and VEs.
no. system time is global for the whole node and its VEs.
By default, VE can not change system time (it requires CAP_SYS_TIME)

> For example, can gettimeofday(2) return
> different things in the HN and in a VE?
it can :) but only if different timezones are selected in VEs.
So you can setup ntpd on the host node and that's all.

Thanks,
Kirill


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