Ran into a funny issue while traveling that I had never experienced before. Because my time zone and system clock weren’t in sync, App Store Connect uploads would mysteriously fail, as well as 2-factor auth for some systems.
@manton Two-factor failures make sense because it’s TOTP - time-based one-time passwords. The two clocks involved need to be in reasonably in sync to generate the same OTP code from the seed value. App Store Connect uploads is weird though!
@jameskoole.ca Yep, once I realized what was happening it made sense. For the App Store, I had to dig into the log files from Xcode… There was a buried error message from AWS about time zones. Some sanity check for S3, I think.
@manton Probably not time zone related, but local clock vs atomic clocks.
On Linux I think datetimectl can show the drift.
