chronyd logs "System clock wrong by xxx seconds, adjustment started"

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Issue

  • What does the following message mean? This can be observed in /var/log/messages file.
chronyd[23018]: System clock wrong by 51.202828 seconds, adjustment started

Environment

・ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
・ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
・ chrony

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