I recently bought a new external SSD to use for Time Machine backups. Most important to me is to have a backup of my Parallels VM, since I do most of the work for my day job in Windows, and I’d be out ...

Local clock inaccuracy is so miniscule as to not merit mention with respect to NTP. (around three orders of magnitude difference). Click to expand... For bare metal, yes. For virtual, no. Fire up ntpd ...