Method for Automatically Providing A Time Signal to Containers or to Virtual Machines and System for Executing Software Applications Running in Containers or Virtual Machines and Related Computer Program Product and Computer-Readable Medium

A method for automatically providing a time signal to containers in an operating system level virtualization or to virtual machines, the method including: -creating a pool of clocks; executing one or more containers in an operating system level virtualization or one or more virtual machines running on an executing hardware device; allocating one or more clocks of the pool of clocks to client containers in the one or more containers or to client virtual machines of the one or more virtual machines, thereby obtaining allocated clocks allocated to the client containers or the client virtual machines; wherein each of the allocated clocks provides a time signal in a time domain to at least one of the client containers or to at least one of the client virtual machines.