# 2FA - dobbiamo fare qualcosa per attivarla?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/2fa-do-we-have-to-do-anything-to-enable-it/94609>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** 2fa\
**Created:** [13 Agosto 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2fa-do-we-have-to-do-anything-to-enable-it/94609 "2018-08-13T15:55:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Post date:** [13 Agosto 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2fa-do-we-have-to-do-anything-to-enable-it/94609/8 "2018-08-13T16:53:12Z")

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> [@AstonJ](#):
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> Does it need to connect to a third party to learn/check what those codes are? Or is it all generated on my server?

Not at all - it is 100% on the server.

> [@AstonJ](#):
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> Just checked the time and it’s fine… would timezones matter?

No. It’s based off UTC; not local time.

What may help is if you want to check what the server’s opinion of the current code is you can use e.g. from the rails console:

```plaintext
pry(main)> User.find_by(username: "Supermathie").totp.now
=> "319971"

```

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