[Dovecot] Time moved backwards ....

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:17:18PM +0200, Harry Lachanas wrote:
> OK..
> So I synced  the clock....
> and got ....
>
> dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 1 seconds. I'll sleep now until we're 
> back in present. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards
>
> ( The first time I did this the clock moved backwards 2 hours after a 
> timezone change and dovecot suicided )
> I think I understand the concept ...
> However a mail server should probably be synchronized to the local time 

You don't really mean what you are saying, I think. Anyway: what do you
do with all those little file timestamps coming from the future?

Many servers dislike time jumping backwards. I've seen even cron killing
itself. Above reaction of dovecot is indeed quite friendly.

FWIW -- if I have to turn back the clock of a server I don't want to
reboot, I just slow down the clock and wait...

Regards
- -- tomás
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