Hey Saul. NTP is currently a hard dependency as we have NTP specific CLIs/database/configuration entries in StarlingX. It is possible we could move to chrony in the future (if we decided that was the way to go), but we would likely have to support both ntp and chrony for at least a release as we'd need to allow a migration path for existing users of ntp. So... short answer is there is a hard dependency. Bart -----Original Message----- From: Saul Wold [mailto:sgw@linux.intel.com] Sent: March 5, 2020 3:55 PM To: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io; Penney, Don; Wensley, Barton; Church, Robert Subject: Chrony vs NTP in CentOS-8 Hi Don, Bart: Great to see you guys the last couple of days here in Chandler. I was reviewing some CentOS-8 work and saw that team was getting NTP from a non-standard repo and then checked that NTP has been replaced with Chrony. Is there a hard dependency in StarlingX for NTP or can Chrony be used as a valid replacement as it's part of the core CentOS-8 distro? Thanks Sau!