I am just reporting my experience - this may be a new failure mode but I don't think so. In the new RTCDS, the ntp server for the FEs are the FB, to which they are synced by timesyncd. The FB machine itself has the ntpd service installed, and so is capable of synching to an NTP server over the internet, but also serving as an NTP server for the FEs. The timesyncd daemon may not have started correctly, or the NTP serving from FB got interrupted (for example), but that's all just speculation.