# Identity timestamp is outside of max skew window

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/identity-timestamp-is-outside-of-max-skew-window/9000>\
**Category:** troubleshooting\
**Tags:** authorization-token, identity\
**Created:** [September 7, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/identity-timestamp-is-outside-of-max-skew-window/9000 "2020-09-07T14:35:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![amorozovs](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/amorozovs/32/1140_2.png) [@amorozovs](https://forum.storj.io/u/amorozovs)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/identity-timestamp-is-outside-of-max-skew-window/9000/1 "2020-09-07T14:35:17Z")

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Hi!

I tried to create storagenode, but:  
./identity authorize storagenode [my.email@is-here.com](mailto:my.email@is-here.com) --log.level debug || date +%s  
2020-09-07T17:24:58.311Z DEBUG Anonymized tracing disabled  
2020-09-07T17:24:58.312Z DEBUG debug server listening on 127.0.0.1:37277  
2020-09-07T17:24:59.050Z DEBUG Allowed minimum version from control server. {“Minimum Version”: “1.0.0”}  
2020-09-07T17:24:59.050Z DEBUG Running on allowed version. {“Version”: “1.11.1”}  
2020-09-07T17:24:59.488Z DEBUG Unrecoverable error {“error”: “certificates peer error: authorization claim error: claim timestamp is outside of max skew window: 1599499499”}  
1599499499

Unix timestamps are identical.  
I used official documentation: [https://documentation.storj.io/dependencies/identity](https://documentation.storj.io/dependencies/identity)

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**Author:** ![littleskunk](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/littleskunk/32/63_2.png) [@littleskunk](https://forum.storj.io/u/littleskunk)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/identity-timestamp-is-outside-of-max-skew-window/9000/2 "2020-09-07T17:48:55Z")

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That error means your clock is out of sync.

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**Author:** ![amorozovs](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/amorozovs/32/1140_2.png) [@amorozovs](https://forum.storj.io/u/amorozovs)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/identity-timestamp-is-outside-of-max-skew-window/9000/3 "2020-09-07T18:06:34Z")

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Yes, but as You can see that error timestamp and server date are identical. Server datetime is synced.

 ![Screenshot 2020-09-07 at 21.05.58](https://storj-s3.bcdn.literatehosting.net/original/2X/5/5abd6492490e603133a8df6eda71865fd43576f2.png)

# root:~# ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter

\*LOCAL(0) .LOCL. 10 l 5 64 377 0.000 +0.000 0.000  
time1[dot]google[dot]co .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 +0.000 0.000  
time2[dot]google[dot]co .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 +0.000 0.000  
time3[dot]google[dot]co .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 +0.000 0.000  
time4[dot]google[dot]co .INIT. 16 u - 1024 0 0.000 +0.000 0.000

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**Author:** ![amorozovs](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/amorozovs/32/1140_2.png) [@amorozovs](https://forum.storj.io/u/amorozovs)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/identity-timestamp-is-outside-of-max-skew-window/9000/4 "2020-09-07T18:26:37Z")

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In the end ntp update via command line fixed the issue

ntpdate -u [pool.ntp.org](http://pool.ntp.org)