The system clock is reported as being incorrectly set…
* checking for future file timestamps ... ERROR
This system is set to the wrong time: please correct
system: 2020-01-06 19:09 (UTC)
correct: 2020-01-06 18:28 (UTC)
…in this MacOS build: https://travis-ci.org/bokov/tidbits/jobs/633407105
The Linux ones run fine.
How is this test structured?
This job finished at 19:00:19 UTC, which is way off from the time stamps indicated.
My quick test on the Mac shows close proximity to the correct time https://travis-ci.org/BanzaiMan/travis_production_test/builds/633444698#L97, so I am not sure how things are so far off on yours.
Apparently it’s one of the standard checks used by the CRAN repository for packages written in the R language.
You’re right, the drift might be a different type of problem than what you had.
However, I think I might have gotten a fix for this. In my .travis.yml file I put…
before_install:
- if [[ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "osx" ]]; then ntpdate -u time.apple.com; fi
Now the build works (thought it might be an intermittent problem and it’s just coincidence that it started working).
A possible explanation is that it’s a problem with only some of VMs/VM hosts.