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

Juergen wrote:

Harlan wrote:

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There is no corrected version of the real-time clock before the PC goes online.

I'd suggest to read chrony's manual. Chrony stores the reference values collected while running online for further use after reboot, even if we have no online connection at that point.

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.

Of course, this doesn't work if you never have synced with an NTP server.

And more often than one might think, if one has just rebooted a machine.

H