>>>Has been happening quite a bit lately:

>>>Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 
>seconds ... that is 30 minutes.

>>>The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint
>>>about 10,800 seconds of time, killing itself now! Restarting it again
>>>works OK.

>>>What's happening? Bug? Fix?

>>Of course, we are missing the point. No, it is not 30 minutes like my eyes 
>>fooled me into a cute title. This is three hours and that is a significant 
>>number. I live at GMT + 2. Add one for daylight savings time.

>>However, I have never used GMT (universal) time to save my system time.
>>So why is this happening now? Ntpdate has not been upgraded past few days.

>>... and why should dovecot care?

>OK, time to fix this. Since my system comes up with the "correct" time zone 
>but three hours later, it must be interpreting the stored (hw) time as GMT 
>and adding the three hours (gmt+2 + daylight savings).

>How to fix this?

Even more. I get a bootup error message failing to set date (and time) to ... 
the following day + 3 hours!!


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