Time drift on 1x Micro NodeJS instance

Troubleshooting and help
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Hey there-

I have a small node express application setup on a 1x micro-tier.

After I deploy my application, the servertime (new Date()) is fine, but slowly it starts to drift backwards.

If I don’t deploy a new version for a while, the server time becomes more and more out of sync. > 5 seconds or more.

Wondering if these instances have any sort of syncronisation with NTP, of if there’s any way to fix this.

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I ended up just using a Dockerfile instead of buildpacks. Seems like by using node:lts time is no longer drifting.

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Using a Dockerfile, the time now drifts foward. Not able to pinpoint where the drift is happening though.

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Hello,

Thank you for your report, you are right this is not expected.
After some investigation, we found the potential root cause for this drift.

We will be releasing a fix within the next few days.
I will post here to update you once it’s completely patched.

Thanks!
Bastien

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This should be fixed now, can you tell me if you are still experiencing drift ?

Thanks!

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Amazing @bastien -

It usually takes a bit of time before i can notice it.

  • Should I use my Dockerfile, or Buildpacks?
  • Should I redeploy?
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Any of Dockerfile or buildpack.
And yes you need to redeploy.

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Thanks @bastien -

I think its fixed! Really cool.

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we’re still experiencing time drift with our application deployed with docker, it usually caused issue for us after a day or two where it went more than 10 seconds out of sync
can you help to check on the issue?
our application is in rails

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Hello, can you provide more information?
How are you measuring the drift?

If possible could you also include the output of ntpd or chrony that show the anomaly?

ntpd -w -n -p pool.ntp.org

and/or

chronyc tracking

Thanks,

Bastien

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Hi Bastien,
I’ve been experiencing the drift for the past 3 months, but somehow it went away after Nov 24, i’ll let you know if it arises again.

Thank you