From: jack@handsome.com   
      
   On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 08:20:29 -0500, Alan K. wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I'm not sure what "And yet" means in this context, but   
      
   Desktop: Xfce 4.18.1   
       Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy   
      
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