diff --git a/src/freedombone b/src/freedombone
index 9cde2a40..589ec946 100755
--- a/src/freedombone
+++ b/src/freedombone
@@ -91,9 +91,6 @@ DDNS_USERNAME=
 DDNS_PASSWORD=
 CURRENT_DDNS_DOMAIN=
 
-TLSDATE_REPO="https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate.git"
-TLSDATE_COMMIT='ae396da167a9e43ce10c2db0956fb2e2b0d400ea'
-
 INADYN_REPO="https://github.com/bashrc/inadyn"
 INADYN_COMMIT='fadbe17f520d337dfb8d69ee4bf1fcaa23fce0d6'
 
@@ -867,12 +864,6 @@ function read_configuration {
       if grep -q "IPFS_COMMIT" $CONFIGURATION_FILE; then
           IPFS_COMMIT=$(grep "IPFS_COMMIT" $CONFIGURATION_FILE | awk -F '=' '{print $2}')
       fi
-      if grep -q "TLSDATE_REPO" $CONFIGURATION_FILE; then
-          TLSDATE_REPO=$(grep "TLSDATE_REPO" $CONFIGURATION_FILE | awk -F '=' '{print $2}')
-      fi
-      if grep -q "TLSDATE_COMMIT" $CONFIGURATION_FILE; then
-          TLSDATE_COMMIT=$(grep "TLSDATE_COMMIT" $CONFIGURATION_FILE | awk -F '=' '{print $2}')
-      fi
       if grep -q "GNUSOCIAL_COMMIT" $CONFIGURATION_FILE; then
           GNUSOCIAL_COMMIT=$(grep "GNUSOCIAL_COMMIT" $CONFIGURATION_FILE | awk -F '=' '{print $2}')
       fi
@@ -6476,60 +6467,11 @@ function time_synchronisation {
       return
   fi
 
-  # update to the next commit
-  if [ -d $INSTALL_DIR/tlsdate ]; then
-      if grep -q "tlsdate commit" $COMPLETION_FILE; then
-          CURRENT_TLSDATE_COMMIT=$(grep "tlsdate commit" $COMPLETION_FILE | awk -F ':' '{print $2}')
-          if [[ "$CURRENT_TLSDATE_COMMIT" != "$TLSDATE_COMMIT" ]]; then
-              cd $INSTALL_DIR/tlsdate
-              git stash
-              git checkout master
-              git pull
-              git checkout $TLSDATE_COMMIT
-              git checkout -b $TLSDATE_COMMIT
-              sed -i "s/tlsdate commit.*/tlsdate commit:$TLSDATE_COMMIT/g" $COMPLETION_FILE
-              ./autogen.sh
-              ./configure
-              make
-              make install
-              cp /usr/local/bin/tlsdate* /usr/bin
-              cp /usr/local/sbin/tlsdate* /usr/bin
-          fi
-      else
-          echo "tlsdate commit:$TLSDATE_COMMIT" >> $COMPLETION_FILE
-      fi
-  fi
-
   if grep -Fxq "time_synchronisation" $COMPLETION_FILE; then
       return
   fi
-  #apt-get -y install tlsdate
-
-  # building tlsdate from source is a workaround because of
-  # this bug https://github.com/ioerror/tlsdate/issues/130
-  apt-get -y install build-essential automake git pkg-config autoconf libtool libssl-dev libevent-dev
-
-  if [ ! -d $INSTALL_DIR ]; then
-      mkdir $INSTALL_DIR
-  fi
-  cd $INSTALL_DIR
-  git clone $TLSDATE_REPO
-  cd $INSTALL_DIR/tlsdate
-  git checkout $TLSDATE_COMMIT
-  git checkout -b $TLSDATE_COMMIT
-  if ! grep -q "tlsdate commit" $COMPLETION_FILE; then
-      echo "tlsdate commit:$TLSDATE_COMMIT" >> $COMPLETION_FILE
-  else
-      sed -i "s/tlsdate commit.*/tlsdate commit:$TLSDATE_COMMIT/g" $COMPLETION_FILE
-  fi
-
-  ./autogen.sh
-  ./configure
-  make
-  make install
-  cp /usr/local/bin/tlsdate* /usr/bin
-  cp /usr/local/sbin/tlsdate* /usr/bin
 
+  apt-get -y install tlsdate
   apt-get -y remove ntpdate
 
   echo '#!/bin/bash' > /usr/bin/updatedate
@@ -6607,42 +6549,6 @@ function time_synchronisation {
   echo '*/15           * *   *   *   root /usr/bin/updatedate' >> /etc/crontab
   service cron restart
 
-  echo '#!/bin/bash' > /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '# /etc/init.d/tlsdate' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '### BEGIN INIT INFO' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '# Provides:          tlsdate' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '# Default-Stop:      0 1 6' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '# Short-Description: Initially calls tlsdate with the timewarp option' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '# Description:       Initially calls tlsdate with the timewarp option' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '### END INIT INFO' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '# Author: Bob Mottram <bob@robotics.uk.to>' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo 'PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin"' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo 'LOGFILE="/var/log/tlsdate.log"' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo 'TLSDATECOMMAND="tlsdate --timewarp -l -H www.ptb.de -p 443 >> $LOGFILE"' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '#Start-Stop here' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo 'case "$1" in' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '  start)' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '    echo "tlsdate started"' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '    $TLSDATECOMMAND' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '    ;;' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '  stop)' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '    echo "tlsdate stopped"' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '    ;;' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '  restart)' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '    echo "tlsdate restarted"' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '    $TLSDATECOMMAND' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '    ;;' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '    *)' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '  echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '  exit 1' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo '  ;;' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo 'esac' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  echo 'exit 0' >> /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  chmod +x /etc/init.d/tlsdate
-  update-rc.d tlsdate defaults
   echo 'time_synchronisation' >> $COMPLETION_FILE
 }