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

[Noel]

On 5/5/2011 1:54 PM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
> --- On Thu, 5/5/11, Timo Sirainen<tss at iki.fi>  wrote:
>
>> From: Timo Sirainen<tss at iki.fi>
>> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] May 05 07:20:21 imap: Warning: Time jumped forwards 16 seconds
>> To: "Spyros Tsiolis"<stsiol at yahoo.co.uk>
>> Cc: f.bonnet at esiee.fr, "Dovecot"<dovecot at dovecot.org>
>> Date: Thursday, 5 May, 2011, 21:49
>> On 5.5.2011, at 20.45, Spyros Tsiolis
>> wrote:
>>
>>> AFAIK, to keep good time on a linux machine inside the
>> network,
>>> you need to run "ntpdate" and not "ntpd".
>> No no no! That just makes things worse! It's the most
>> common reason for these "Time jumped forwards/backwards"
>> warnings.
>>
>>
> !
>
> Seriously ?
>

Definitely you should run ntpd -- but you need to make sure 
that it's configured correctly and working.  Running "ntpdate" 
will cause time to jump.


   -- Noel Jones