VM time and date (NTP) incorrect

Scenario

Post start, you find your VM’s time and date is not up to date. Sometimes off by weeks or months.

Common Causes

1. This happens when the sudo sntp -sS time.apple.com fails inside of the VM post-start. We’ve disabled automatic NTP syncing to support suspended VM states (it causes problems), so our addons will execute the sntp command post-start.
   • Addons log to /var/log/anka.log inside of the VM and may indicate/log what went wrong.

Solution

1. You can manually run sudo sntp -sS time.apple.com in your jobs to ensure macOS is synced properly.

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