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Bug#597803: (fwd) DUH - Re: Bug#595801: same thing in upgraded vm



Package: apt
Version: 0.8.0
# the version is just a guess

| From: Mark Hedges <hedges@scriptdolphin.com>
| Subject: DUH - Re: Bug#595801: same thing in upgraded vm
| 
| DUH - vmware - clock was way off, it thought it was October
| 21st - no wonder it thought the cache time was stale.  Sorry
| to bother you.
| --mark--
| 
| On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Mark Hedges wrote:
| 
| > E: Release file expired, ignoring http://security.debian.org/dists/testing/updates/Release (invalid since 20d 13h 38min 34s)
| >

Maybe that apt error message should not say for how many days it's been
invalid, but at which date it has expired?

Or it could say both (expired 2010-09-30 (20d 13h ..ago).

It could also ask the user if their clock is right.

Cheers,
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