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So I have learned that Postfix should delay until Chronyd has moved the system time from 0 to current. What other services need to be delayed? Apache? Bind? Of course if this is a nameserver, Chronyd will probably not be able to resolve the NTP server addresses until Bind is running! thanks

...he start-up {make some other services depend on it} checks to see if the system date&time is before the time on that file, if it is then use the time stamp {+ a few sec} on the file to set the current time. That way time would at least move forward. in the olden days we used to use `hwclock --badyear` mitigate part of it. perhaps you could extend hwclock for --dead-batteries and make it easier for every one with an arm {assuming hwclock is still used in the boot process to pull the initial time from the clock}. :) Even when this disclaimer is not here: I am not a contracting officer. I do not...