[Bug 1447142] Re: systemd: ntpdate is started too soon (before the network)

[Laurent Bonnaud]

> Can you explain why this is actually a problem please?

I guess that Ubuntu systems with ntp installed would boot a little
faster if ntp was not doing useless work by getting started before the
network is fully up.

> Won't timesyncd suffice on a desktop that uses NetworkManager now?

Perhaps, but timesyncd is not activated by default.  I had to type this
command to activate it:

# timedatectl set-ntp true

While timesyncd is probably a fine alternative to ntp, this is a bug in
ntp and Ubuntu would be a better system with this bug fixed (or ntp
removed and timesyncd activated by default).

> Is the time on your system actually falling out of sync, or is the problem just the noise of
the error message?

Time is fine on my system, but the noise of the error messages is a
problem in itself.


** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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