Time Reset Script For Laravel Homestead

Vagrant being annoying

Like many others, I’ve had issues keeping my virtual machine time in sync. Ever come back to your VM console, try to run a command, and see something similar to:

{ “error”: “invalid_grant”, “error_description”: “Invalid JWT: Token must be a short-lived token and in a reasonable timeframe”} ?

Then you have too. Other solutions involve configuring your Vagrant file to trigger a re-sync if things get too out of whack, but I have had very inconsistent results using them in practice.

Instead, I prefer running a quick script that will sync the time with NTP on command.

#!/bin/bash
# Forces an ntp update
#
# Based on SO user Martin Schröder's answer to "How to force a clock update
# using ntp?": http://askubuntu.com/a/256004/41943

# Fail fast (set -e will bail at first error)
set -e

if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "ERROR: '$0' must be as root."
    exit 1
fi

service ntp stop

echo "Running 'ntpd -gq'"
ntpd -gq

service ntp start

https://gist.github.com/nickpoulos/b519f9789ba367c54ca54b5b6b72bdc9