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		agwa on June 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Last week's Let's Encrypt downtime That's a pretty good idea, and would also mitigate clients with slow clocks rejecting a certificate for not being valid yet.

toast0 on June 23, 2023 [–]

Or clients with poor handling of dates. It's been a while, but Nokia Series 40 was really bad at this. As I recall, it would read the not-before as if the time was specified in local time. So not before noon UTC becomes not before noon wherever you are, so better wait a while for users in the americas.

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