

# ntpq -np remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter This was causing hundreds of internal customer tickets to be generated. In the first case the problem was that, when migrating VMs (using Red Hat Virtualization), the time on the VM would be off by several seconds.


Case 1: Incorrect time after migrating VMs This is perhaps not a topic people consider very often, but I have seen this recently in a couple of cases - running ntpd in slew mode on a VM can cause the time to be wrong by several seconds, or even several minutes, so I thought I would write a blog post.
