[Dovecot] Time just moved backwards error even with ntpd

[Luigi Rosa]

Scenario: server PC abruptly switched off due to power cable problems 
(an UPS cannot solve this issue), so during shutdown Linux was not 
able to resinchronize the system clock. After a few hours the server 
come back on, Linux booted and the services (ntpd, dovecot and many 
others) started

But the system clock was 45 minutes ahead, so:

Jan 19 11:13:39 gw ntpd[2112]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 10
Jan 19 11:13:39 gw ntpd[2112]: kernel time sync disabled 0041
Jan 19 11:14:43 gw ntpd[2112]: synchronized to 62.48.35.100, stratum 2
Jan 19 10:31:55 gw ntpd[2112]: time reset -3600.221385 s
Jan 19 10:31:55 gw ntpd[2112]: kernel time sync enabled 0001
Jan 19 10:31:55 gw dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 3600 seconds. 
This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself now. 
http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards




Ciao,
luigi

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