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Troubleshooting

Clock skew / wrong time errors

Last verified: May 2026

Symptoms

On launch, FocusDragon shows a warning that your clock looks wrong. Or: schedule-triggered blocks don't start at the expected time, JWT errors appear in sign-in, period tracking in Stats is off by hours or days.

Cause

Several pieces of FocusDragon rely on your Mac's clock being within a few minutes of network time: server JWT validation (5-minute tolerance), schedule rules ("start at 09:00"), and the daily stats rollup boundary. If your clock has drifted, all of these misbehave at once.

Step-by-step fix

  • 1. Open System Settings → General → Date & Time.
  • 2. Toggle Set time and time zone automatically On.
  • 3. Confirm the Time Zone shown matches where you actually are.
  • 4. Wait 30 seconds for the clock to resync against time.apple.com.
  • 5. Quit and relaunch FocusDragon.
Manually setting the clock to bypass a Locked block does not work — and it will desync your stats, your schedule rules, and your auth in the process. Don't try it.

Still stuck? Contact support at hi@focusdragon.app with the output of `date` from Terminal and your expected current time.

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