[opensuse-arm] NTP on nanopi neo (air) ?

I don't seem to be able to run NTP on my nanopi neo air - when I try to start it, it enters a loop of stopping and starting, reporting "0.0.0.0 c01d 0d kern kernel time sync disabled". If I do a single-shot "ntpd -g -q", it works. The RTC seems very stable...