"runtime went backwards" message in logs

[Julian H. Stacey]

> PS. Not sure if this have anything to do with it (the message mentions CPU
> time, not the clock), but I'm running a ntp daemon, to synchronize time...

Highly likely it has a Lot to do with it :-) Maybe the master time
server had `date` run manually, or otherwise shifted, or came back
on net after an outage, & the systems noticed drifted time & corrected etc.
	man ntpd
	man ntp.conf 
	etc :-)
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