[CentOS] System Time Jumps During Boot on CentOS 7

Hi All,

Just noticed a funny time jump on a testing CentOS 7 VM.  Specifically
the system time jumps around by a few hours during system boot.  The
below is a selection from /var/log/messages during boot:


Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev chronyd[716]: Frequency -0.829 +/- 0.007
ppm read from /var/lib/chrony/drift
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev polkitd[720]: Started polkitd version 0.112
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Starting D-Bus System Message Bus...
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Starting GSSAPI Proxy Daemon...
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Started Dump dmesg to /var/log/dmesg.
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 40
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev sssd: Starting up
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Started GSSAPI Proxy Daemon.
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Reached target NFS client services.
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Starting NFS client services.
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Reached target Remote File Systems
(Pre).
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Starting Remote File Systems (Pre).
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Started Authorization Manager.
Jan 19 12:49:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Starting firewalld - dynamic
firewall daemon...
Jan 19 20:47:57 arr-data-dev systemd: Time has been changed
Jan 19 20:47:57 arr-data-dev chronyd[716]: Forward time jump detected!
Jan 19 20:47:57 arr-data-dev sssd[be[default]]: Starting up

<snip>

Jan 19 20:48:05 arr-data-dev systemd: Starting Multi-User System.
Jan 19 20:48:05 arr-data-dev systemd: Starting Update UTMP about System
Runlevel Changes...
Jan 19 20:48:05 arr-data-dev systemd: Started Update UTMP about System
Runlevel Changes.
Jan 19 12:50:09 arr-data-dev chronyd[716]: Selected source IP-CHANGED
Jan 19 12:50:09 arr-data-dev chronyd[716]: System clock wrong by
-28676.126423 seconds, adjustment started
Jan 19 12:50:09 arr-data-dev chronyd[716]: System clock was stepped by
-28676.126423 seconds
Jan 19 12:50:09 arr-data-dev systemd: Time has been changed
Jan 19 12:50:09 arr-data-dev chronyd[716]: Selected source IP-CHANGED
Jan 19 12:50:10 arr-data-dev chronyd[716]: Selected source IP-CHANGED
Jan 19 12:50:11 arr-data-dev chronyd[716]: Selected source IP-CHANGED

For reference the 12:49 -> 12:50 is the correct local time, I'm in the
Australian Eastern Daylight Saving time zone and my hardware clock (from
hwclock) is close to that time.

The plus eight hours jump has me curious though as I think this is
causing some trouble for SSSD and Network Manager that are starting up
in interval when the time is stepped forward.  Given I'm at +11 from UTC
the system clock does not appear to be jumping to UTC.

I'm running 3.10.0-514.2.2.el7.x86_64 with yum reporting no patches. 
This is a VM running on ESXi 5.6.

According to /var/log/boot.log everything started up OK.

Has anyone seen anything similar?

Thanks in advance,
-pete



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