Why did my physical system's clock had a huge time jump into the future?
Issue
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There was a suspicious forward time jump detected on a physical server. The system's date jumped forward several months:
Apr 26 15:55:02 hostname chronyd[74033]: Selected source 10.238.136.5 Apr 25 22:22:15 hostname chronyd[74033]: Selected source 10.238.103.5 Apr 25 22:22:13 hostname chronyd[74033]: System clock was stepped by 33548.732982 seconds Apr 25 13:03:04 hostname chronyd[74033]: System clock wrong by 33548.732982 seconds, adjustment started Apr 25 13:03:04 hostname chronyd[74033]: Selected source 10.238.136.5 Apr 25 13:03:00 hostname systemd[1]: Started NTP client/server. Apr 25 13:03:00 hostname chronyd[74033]: Frequency 0.644 +/- 0.023 ppm read from /var/lib/chrony/drift Apr 25 13:03:00 hostname chronyd[74033]: generatecommandkey directive is no longer supported Apr 25 13:03:00 hostname chronyd[74033]: commandkey directive is no longer supported Apr 25 13:03:00 hostname chronyd[74033]: chronyd version 3.4 starting (+CMDMON +NTP +REFCLOCK +RTC +PRIVDROP +SCFILTER +SIGND +ASYNCDNS +SECHASH +IPV6 +DEBUG) Apr 25 13:03:00 hostname systemd[1]: Starting NTP client/server... Apr 25 13:03:00 hostname systemd[1]: Stopped NTP client/server. Apr 25 13:03:00 hostname chronyd[2272]: chronyd exiting Apr 25 13:03:00 hostname systemd[1]: Stopping NTP client/server... Apr 25 10:06:13 hostname chronyd[2272]: System clock wrong by 34364.678742 seconds, adjustment started Apr 25 10:06:13 hostname chronyd[2272]: Selected source 10.238.136.5 Apr 25 10:04:03 hostname chronyd[2272]: Can't synchronise: no selectable sources Apr 25 10:04:03 hostname chronyd[2272]: Backward time jump detected! Jul 09 01:19:08 hostname chronyd[2272]: System clock wrong by -6414352.999122 seconds, adjustment started Jul 09 01:19:08 hostname chronyd[2272]: Selected source 10.238.136.5
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All versions)
- BeyondTrust AD Bridge or similar AD solution
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