From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   On 1/31/26 6:08 AM, Handsome Jack wrote:   
   > The other day I was unable to log in to one of my financial accounts. Took   
   > several days to work out what the problem was, but now it seems that my   
   > computer clock was several minutes wrong. The web site requires you to use   
   > an authenticator app, and my app was generating the wrong codes from the   
   > system clock.   
   >   
   > Why was the clock wrong? The GUI Time and Date Settings utility had "Keep   
   > synchronised with Internet servers" selected, though it didn't provide a   
   > way of choosing an NTP. You'd have thought this meant it would go to a   
   > default server, but it obviously hadn't.   
   >   
   > Turns out that my version of LM doesn't come with the service that keeps   
   > the clock synced to an NTP server.   
   >   
   > I did some research and found that LM's utility (or setting, whatever you   
   > call it) for doing this is systemd-timesyncd.service. But it had either   
   > never been installed, or was masked, or had not been set to start up, and   
   > nowhere is there a prompt telling users to do this. Nor am I the first   
   > person to be troubled by this.   
   >   
   > WTF?   
   >   
   >   
   And yet you forget to tell us the version of Linux that you have.   
      
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   Linux Mint 22.3,  Mozilla Thunderbird 140.7.0esr,  Mozilla Firefox 147.0.1   
        Alan K.   
      
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