"chrony-wait.service" fails on OpenShift Nodes

Issue

• On OpenShift Container Platform, when logging into the Node, the "chrony-wait.service" is failing:

  $ sudo systemctl status chrony-wait.service 
  × chrony-wait.service - Wait for chrony to synchronize system clock
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/chrony-wait.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Wed 2025-07-09 12:27:39 UTC; 42min ago
     Docs: man:chronyc(1)
  Main PID: 1434 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
      CPU: 113ms
  
  Jul 09 12:24:39 xxx-01-worker-az1-dp6ck systemd[1]: Starting Wait for chrony to synchronize system clock...
  Jul 09 12:27:39 xxx-01-worker-az1-dp6ck systemd[1]: chrony-wait.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
  Jul 09 12:27:39 xxx-01-worker-az1-dp6ck systemd[1]: chrony-wait.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
  Jul 09 12:27:39 xxx-01-worker-az1-dp6ck systemd[1]: chrony-wait.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
  Jul 09 12:27:39 xxx-01-worker-az1-dp6ck systemd[1]: Failed to start Wait for chrony to synchronize system clock.
  

• When executing the command from the systemd unit manually we can see the following output:

  # /usr/bin/chronyc -h 127.0.0.1,::1 waitsync 0 0.1 0.0 1
  506 Cannot talk to daemon
  506 Cannot talk to daemon