Creation Date GnuPG 1.1.90 on secret key?

[Brian M. Carlson]

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On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 10:37:28PM -0500, Greg Strong wrote:
> Hello All,
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> Why does GnuPg version display a creation date of 7-22-02 on the
> secret key when in fact it was 7-21-02?

Rather, it's not the secret key, but the subkey. The subkey is used for
encryption, and the primary key (marked pub) is used for signing only
(because DSA cannot used for encryption).
=20
> The date on the public key is correct.  When I list the key I receive
> the following information:
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> pub  1024D/EF2178E3  created: 2002-07-21 expires: never      trust: u/u
> sub  4096g/2624CFE7  created: 2002-07-22 expires: never
> (1). Greg Strong (Gold Wing Rider) <gw_goldwing@gwstrong.com>

I cannot find this key on any of the 4-6 servers that I regularly fetch
keys from.

> Is this possibly due to not setting the time zone variable in my
> autoexec.bat file or is this a bug in 1.1.90? I did restore my OS
> partition which probably wiped the one that did exist of
> "SET TZ=3DCST6CDT,04,1,0,7200,10,-1,0,7200,3600".

If this line is no longer there, that might be the cause. I live in
Houston, TX, US, so I have the same time (but I'm on UTC). It depends
when you generated the key. If you generated it just on the cusp of 7:00
(12:00 if your TZ is set correctly) localtime, this might happen to be
accurate.

If you can give me the pub and sub lines from this command:
gpg --fixed-list-mode --with-colons --list-key EF2178E3
then I'll be able to tell you if it's a bug or not.
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