Key import on a machine with date moved back

[Werner Koch]

On Fri,  2 Dec 2016 15:18, dkg at fifthhorseman.net said:

> 2.1 does have --ignore-time-conflict, but i agree with you that it might

Actually all versions have that for many years.  The RIPE requested that once.

> make more sense to tolerate a "typical" clock skew of a few seconds or
> minutes by default.

Yes, that is useful.  There is another open bug related to too strict
validation result for time conflicts and in the course of fixing that we
should allow for a skew of a few minutes.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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