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

[Rick Romero]

Quoting Noel <noeldude at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>

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