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

[Jay Welch]

I had the same problem. If you are running dovecot on a virtual machine 
this is what I did and the issue was fixed:

http://nbevans.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/centos-5-5-losing-time-synchronisation-on-hyper-v-r2/


On 5/5/2011 12:27 PM, Rick Romero wrote:
>
> Quoting Noel <noeldude at gmail.com>:
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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.
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