Some mysterious phabricator issue. It’s here:
No, because in VirtualBox sdwdate will fix the clock to reasonable correctness.
Exactly this is failing in Qubes Template, because these are non-networked and because https://web.archive.org/web/20230603005622/https://phabricator.whonix.org/T387 isn’t implemented. (Asking sys-whonix for the time.)
Added here for consideration just now: