Title: Error Activating 2FA Wrong time
Last modified: August 6, 2019

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# Error Activating 2FA Wrong time

 *  Resolved [geert81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geert81/)
 * (@geert81)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-2fa-wrong-time/)
 * I see there are plenty of users with this problem, but don’t want to hijack their
   posts.
 * The error I get is: “Error Activating 2FA – The code provided does not match 
   the expected value. Please verify that the time on your authenticator device 
   is correct and that this server’s time is correct.”
 * At the moment of posting this, my LOCAL REAL time (Brussels) is 10:10 AM.
 * Wordpress timezeone says:
    Universal time (UTC) is 2019-08-06 08:10:48. Local
   time is 2019-08-06 08:10:48.
 * WordFence says (one minute later because I’m typing here…):
    Server Time: 2019-
   08-06 08:11:27 UTC (2019-08-06 08:11:27 UTC) Browser Time: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 08:
   11:28 GMT (Tue Aug 06 2019 10:11:28 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)) 
   Corrected Time (WF): 2019-08-06 07:41:56 UTC (2019-08-06 07:41:56 UTC)
 * Some strange things. My Computer time is 10:10 AM too, not sure why my “browser
   time” is different. My Phone (with the authenticator apps) is 10:10 AM too.
 * But what’s up with the “Corrected Time (WF)”, what kind of weird time is this?
 * Anyway, I just moved the site from Godaddy (where it worked) to Siteground (where
   it now no longer works). No idea why.
 * Please help.
 * Thank you!

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 *  Plugin Support [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/)
 * (@wfphil)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-2fa-wrong-time/#post-11852862)
 * Hi [@geert81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geert81/)
 * Can you remove the 2FA entry for your admin user and also the website entry in
   your authentication app and set it up again.
 * Please let me know how it proceeds.
 *  Thread Starter [geert81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geert81/)
 * (@geert81)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-2fa-wrong-time/#post-11853573)
 * Thank you. Had tried that before at the time of writing (even tried different
   authenticator app). Didn’t work, but now it does! Was able to activate it. Thanks!
 *  Plugin Support [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/)
 * (@wfphil)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-activating-2fa-wrong-time/#post-11854366)
 * Hi [@geert81](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geert81/)
 * Glad to hear it worked this time!

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