/lib/systemd/system/ntpdate.service currently says: Wants=time-sync.target I believe that should be: Wants=network-online.target time-sync.target See https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTarget/
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e4b4dea3d09eef699a51f915e96e53db6084b46b commit e4b4dea3d09eef699a51f915e96e53db6084b46b Author: Craig Andrews <candrews@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-08-27 18:30:25 +0000 Commit: Craig Andrews <candrews@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-08-27 18:43:20 +0000 net-misc/ntp: systemd service improvements systemd services Wants=network-online.target Remove explicit reference to NetworkManager, use generic network-online.target instead Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/658608 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.73, Repoman-2.3.17 Signed-off-by: Craig Andrews <candrews@gentoo.org> net-misc/ntp/files/ntpdate.service-r2 | 14 ++++ net-misc/ntp/files/sntp.service-r3 | 14 ++++ net-misc/ntp/ntp-4.2.8_p13-r1.ebuild | 146 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 174 insertions(+)