[Dovecot] Time moved backwards ....

[Harry Lachanas]

tomas at tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:17:18PM +0200, Harry Lachanas wrote:
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>> 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 
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> You don't really mean what you are saying, I think. Anyway: what do you
>   
of course I do .....
The server I was talking about was a test server, fresh install, and I 
corrected the time zone ....
So If U are offended, I am sorry ....
On the other hand if U have NOT something real to share .... please do 
not answer .... at least with an empty answer ....
You will probably  make  other  people  tired + disappointed  too,  
searching  the list  trying to locate the answer to this question ....

> do with all those little file timestamps coming from the future?
>   
I haven't reached the point where a summer or winter time change 
happened ... :-) , yet .........
I would hate the moment that I would have to explain to my users that 
they have to wait  for a couple of hours ....
until the server wakes up again ...!!!!
Also add that I tend not to explain in techno-mambo-jumbo-geek ( 
metaphorically  ;-) )  terminology what is going on .... 

Having said all of the above ...

My apologies to the list for the extra paragraphs and being of-topic ...

Cheers,
Harry.

> 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...
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> Regards
> - -- tomás
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