[Dovecot] May 05 07:20:21 imap: Warning: Time jumped forwards 16 seconds

[Bruno Tréguier]

Le 05/05/2011 à 21:27, Rick Romero a écrit :

> I thought everyone knew that if you removed the 1.55v watch battery from
> the motherboard, you could put in a 1.6v battery and time will run
> faster. Then just use ntpdate - time will never jump forward, and
> dovecot won't crash.
>
>
> :D

Hi,

As Timo just stated, you definitely should run ntpd, which tries to 
adjust the clock's pace smoothly, instead of ntpdate, which abruptly 
changes the clock and should only be used *before* starting ntpd 
(typically at service startup), to catch up a difference too big for 
ntpd to handle in a reasonable time.

If time moves backwards, Dovecot will not crash, but will kill itself, 
which in the end amounts to pretty much the same. ;-)

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards

Best regards,

Bruno

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