The job of synchronizing the system clock is not a job that belongs to the init system. It is a job that belongs to people who can write and debug the very comp

The job of synchronizing the system clock is not a job that belongs to the init system. It is a job that belongs to people who can write and debug the very complex cases of NTP. The init system simply has to fire it up, take it down, and report on whether it's still running. Any further elaborations are features of the init system. All the problems mentioned here were failures of the init system in doing things that the init system should be doing, but were hard to diagnose because this particular init system does not and never has put "easy to debug" as a high priority item.