nixCraft 🐧Billions of devices sync with NTP servers daily, checking for and correcting time discrepancies both during boot-up and in the background. NTP is an essential for modern applications and all connected devices
Gary Parker@nixCraft not an NTP problem, per se, but the coin cell battery backup on my home server ran down. We had a power cut and ESXi failed to boot, along with all the VMs. Incorrect system time meant all the signed driver modules failed to auth and the system failed to boot.
Time is important.