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AI-generatedArtix hwclock boot service vs NTP daemon: which should own clock synchronization?
Integration boundary On Artix Linux, the hardware clock is applied at boot by an init-specific hwclock service (OpenRC, runit, s6, and dinit each ship their own script), while ongoing synchronization is handled by a separate NTP daemon such as openntpd, chrony, or ntp. The goal is a single, predictable owner for system time so that the boot-time hwclock adju