[Dovecot] dovecot and ntp: Fatal: Time just moved backwards

[Stewart Dean]

I have been running AIX, IBM's Unix on IBM hardware for years but am 
being forced into Lintel, mostly because of IBM hollowing out support,  
moving to a Fortune 500 only customer base and leaving the small shop 
increasingly SOL.  One of the realities of Lintel is that the hardware 
is, compared to purpose built Unix hardware with a matching O/S, crap.  
Partially because it's based on commodity hardware, 'little' matters 
like time consistency don't necessarily work consistently.  Another area 
is storage corruption.  Interesting piece here:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/reiserfs.html

> Juergen wrote:
>   
> I'm pretty familiar with ntp in particular and computer timekeeping in
> general.
>
> I've also seen a fair number of situations where the hardware clock is
> "just wrong", especially after a reboot.
>
> In my world, it's about getting things to work right in as many cases as
> possible.
>   
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