time changed from 2020-07-03 to 2022-05-18

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Hello,

Had to reboot the box.
When it came up it got the wrong date.
It looks like ntpd had a role here:

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Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], not found
in smartd database.
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], can't
monitor Current_Pending_Sector count - no Attribute 197
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], can't
monitor Offline_Uncorrectable count - no Attribute 198
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], is SMART
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdd, type changed
from 'scsi' to 'sat'
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], opened
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], Samsung
SSD 860 QVO 2TB, S/N:S4CYNF0M520076M, WWN:5-002538-e40feda39,
FW:RVQ11B6Q, 2.00 TB
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], not found
in smartd database.
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], can't
monitor Current_Pending_Sector count - no Attribute 197
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], can't
monitor Offline_Uncorrectable count - no Attribute 198
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], is SMART
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/nvme0, opened
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/nvme0, KINGSTON
SKC2000M8250G, S/N:50026B72824168C0, FW:S2780101
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/nvme0, is SMART
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/nvme1, opened
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/nvme1, KINGSTON
SKC2000M8250G, S/N:50026B73324169CC, FW:S2780102
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/nvme1, is SMART
capable. Adding to "monitor" list.
Jul  3 10:06:47 boombox smartd[2004]: Monitoring 4 ATA/SATA, 0 SCSI/SAS
and 2 NVMe devices
May 18 10:06:48 boombox ntpd[2055]: CLOCK: time stepped by 59097600.478559
May 18 10:06:48 boombox ntpd[2055]: CLOCK: time changed from 2020-07-03
to 2022-05-18
May 18 10:06:48 boombox ntpd[2055]: INIT: MRU 10922 entries, 13 hash
bits, 65536 bytes
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We're running a fairly recent git version of ntpsec:
ntpsec-1.1.9-0.fc31.x86_64 on Fedora 31 on kernel.org 5.7.7.

How can I avoid this from happening again?

Please let me know.

Kind regards,
Udo