On Mon, 16 May 2011 11:32:15 -0600, Steve Strobel <steve.stro...@link-comm.com> wrote: > root:~> gpg --import test-key.gpg > gpg: key CBF38289 was created 137948617 seconds in the future > (time warp or clock problem)
This is exactly what it sounds like: according to your certificate, it was created about five and a half months from now.[1] To GnuPG, that sounds like something's hinky and it refuses to allow it to be imported. You've managed to get around it by telling GnuPG, "listen, fine, strip off the hinky signature: /now/ will you accept it?" And in that case, sure, GnuPG will: but the consequence of it is you've got a UID that's missing a signature. Hence, "allow-nonselfsigned-uid" must be passed on the command line. [1] As an undergraduate Prof. Hill once mused to me, "Math is funny. You tell someone how many seconds are in a year, they forget it immediately. You tell them that accurate to half a percent there are pi seconds in a nanocentury and they remember it for life." He was right, I've never forgotten, and that's made it easy to remember there are 31.4 million (3.14 * 10**7) seconds in a year. 13.8 million / 31.4 million = 137/314 = 0.44 of a year, * 12 = five and a half months, more or less. Not really relevant to GnuPG, but a handy factoid for timestamp calculations, if you ever need to do them in a hurry. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
