diff --git a/src/journal/journald-server.c b/src/journal/journald-server.c
index dd31007a4de..de08c4e9651 100644
--- a/src/journal/journald-server.c
+++ b/src/journal/journald-server.c
@@ -873,10 +873,6 @@ static bool shall_try_append_again(JournalFile *f, int r) {
                 log_ratelimit_warning(JOURNAL_LOG_RATELIMIT, "%s: Journal file has been deleted, rotating.", f->path);
                 return true;
 
-        case -ETXTBSY:         /* Journal file is from the future */
-                log_ratelimit_warning(JOURNAL_LOG_RATELIMIT, "%s: Journal file is from the future, rotating.", f->path);
-                return true;
-
         case -EREMCHG:         /* Wallclock time (CLOCK_REALTIME) jumped backwards relative to last journal entry */
                 log_ratelimit_warning(JOURNAL_LOG_RATELIMIT, "%s: Realtime clock jumped backwards relative to last journal entry, rotating.", f->path);
                 return true;
diff --git a/src/journal/managed-journal-file.c b/src/journal/managed-journal-file.c
index 81aecfe7cb9..538d999de0a 100644
--- a/src/journal/managed-journal-file.c
+++ b/src/journal/managed-journal-file.c
@@ -542,8 +542,7 @@ int managed_journal_file_open_reliably(
                     -EBUSY,             /* Unclean shutdown */
                     -ESHUTDOWN,         /* Already archived */
                     -EIO,               /* IO error, including SIGBUS on mmap */
-                    -EIDRM,             /* File has been deleted */
-                    -ETXTBSY))          /* File is from the future */
+                    -EIDRM))            /* File has been deleted */
                 return r;
 
         if ((open_flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY)
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-journal/journal-file.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-journal/journal-file.c
index 05c66815ae1..b1064a69820 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-journal/journal-file.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-journal/journal-file.c
@@ -537,14 +537,6 @@ static int journal_file_verify_header(JournalFile *f) {
 
                 if (f->header->field_hash_table_size == 0 || f->header->data_hash_table_size == 0)
                         return -EBADMSG;
-
-                /* Don't permit appending to files from the future. Because otherwise the realtime timestamps wouldn't
-                 * be strictly ordered in the entries in the file anymore, and we can't have that since it breaks
-                 * bisection. */
-                if (le64toh(f->header->tail_entry_realtime) > now(CLOCK_REALTIME))
-                        return log_debug_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(ETXTBSY),
-                                               "Journal file %s is from the future, refusing to append new data to it that'd be older.",
-                                               f->path);
         }
 
         return 0;