I'm using Debian Squeeze on a vServer guest hostet under OpenVZ from my provider.

The problem is that the configuration does not allow me to set the time or date, but the system often has a timedrift of 10 minutes or more. All I can do regarding date/time settings myself is to change the timezone to the correct timezone of my country. Now I've got tired from complaining and begging for correcting the time at least once a month.

As dpkg-reconfigure tzdata is able to set an offset (or does it anything else?) for the timezone I'm curious whether it's possible by any means to add the timedrift to the offset so the time will always be much closer to the real local time, either by updating the offset manually or automated using ntp?

This is the info about my system I get from uname -a.
Linux myvsguest* 2.6.32-5-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Sun May 6 05:21:56 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

*) I replaced the real guest hostname by myvsguest*

Maybe I'm just wrong with my assumption and there is a way I'm not aware of to set the time. But after reading the information about the topic in this forum and other places in the net this can only be done in the vServer host so I dont expect it. To change the provider is an option, of course ((I hope he is reading here))

Any ideas / suggestions are welcome.

Setting time, or having a NTP daemon set it, require capabilities ('man capabilities') your container doesn't have. Some people have had limited success combating time skew variation with kernel "clocksource=" command line args but that's a stopgap measure. Unless you can get your provider to
which would give you the capability
...unfortunately is the "right" option: learn from the experience and vote with your wallet.

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