gnome-shell issues warnings about inaccurate timestamps

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • User has a GNOME session open for about seven weeks.
  • System logs start being spammed with messages like “org.gnome.Shell.desktop: Window manager warning: last_user_time (…) is greater than comparison timestamp (…). This most likely represents a buggy client sending inaccurate timestamps in messages”.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
  • gnome-shell

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