Post #4418494

I noticed that signing in to Mastodon using 2FA didn't reliably work. Turns out my system clock was ~30 seconds behind that of the actual time (currently GMT +1 for me). On Linux distributions that have systemd, systemd apparently synchronises your system time with a time server automatically. However, I use Devuan (i.e. Debian but without systemd) so I had to do it manually. I used `htpdate` to set the time to a UK time server on pool.ntp.org like this: ``` sudo htpdate uk.pool.ntp.org ``` No need to reboot. It's now accurate to GMT+1 to within about half a second. :) Hashtags: #Devuan #time #system #Linux #2FA #systemd #Debian