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Re: daylight savings error on reboot



"Matt Price" <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> I believe my system clock is set to UTC, and I don't have any other OS
> operating on the system.

If your system clock is set to UTC it should never be changed for
daylight savings time.  If it is changed on every boot than you system
probably doesn't know that it is supposed to be on UTC.

> Apr 11 22:12:09 anarres kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
> Apr 20 07:17:36 anarres postfix/cleanup[1599]: warning: file system
> clock is 3568 seconds ahead of local clock
> Apr 21 07:00:03 anarres postfix/qmgr[9884]: warning: backward time
> jump detected -- slewing clock
> Apr 25 17:20:48 anarres kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
> Apr 26 06:00:08 anarres postfix/qmgr[9916]: warning: backward time
> jump detected -- slewing clock
> Apr 26 06:46:16 anarres kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
>
> These don't seem to me to give much help, escept for the lone postfix
> message "file system clock is ahead of local clock".  I'm not exactly
> sure what that means though, any pointers?

It probably means that postfix has found some files from future
because the time had been adjusted backwards.

Matthias



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