forums.linuxmint.com misconfigured - ? [SOLVED]

[Flemur]

Edit: JeremyB correctly honed in on the time issue: time.
I had had problems with ubuntu apparently changing the BIOS clock, and then the time was messed up in Manjaro. And one OS used my correct time-zone and one didn't...my displayed time was correct when the forum didn't like it, but the time displayed in firefox was wrong. Sigh.

Solution: set the BIOS clock to UTC, namely set it to THE WRONG TIME, then use the correct timezone file in /etc/localtime*. Then the linuxes are happy and firefox thinks the time is the same as the local time. The BIOS clock should display the correct time, but who ever looks at it...?

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An hour or so ago, it was OK, now I get the below (added an exception to make this post) from firefox; link I use is
search.php?search_id=active_topics&sid= ... fe644b7f19

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forums.linuxmint.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate will not be valid until January 6, 2019, 7:20:38 AM GMT-7. The current time is January 6, 2019, 12:57 AM.

Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_NOT_YET_VALID_CERTIFICATE

[JeremyB]

Some of the security certs expired and were renewed, you may have visited just before the start time on the cert

[Flemur]

Some of the security certs expired and were renewed, you may have visited just before the start time on the cert

I'm still getting it. Running Manjaro, FWIW.

[JeremyB]

Is your time correct? I only saw an error on community.linuxmint.com earlier about the cert being expired, but that doesn't happen now

[Flemur]

Is your time correct? I only saw an error on community.linuxmint.com earlier about the cert being expired, but that doesn't happen now

You're close. My time is correct, but linux's handling of that time is not correct. I have to delete "(/usr/share/zoneinfo*") or else my time is off by 7 hours. (Edit: something to do with dual-boot lubunu and manjaro; lubuntu would set the BIOS clock incorrectly, then I fixed that to "don't change it!" and Manjaro would display the incorrect time until I deleted the thousands of time-zone files, which I hate the fact they exist in the first place)

Now the msg says:

forums.linuxmint.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate will not be valid until January 6, 2019, 2:20:38 PM GMT. The current time is January 6, 2019, 3:46 AM. Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_NOT_YET_VALID_CERTIFICATE

The current time was 10:46AM, not 3:46AM

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$ date
Sun Jan  6 10:50:02 UTC 2019

Edit: I still get the error - and the incorrect time in the error message - with Manjaro, even though the date and time are correct. In lubuntu the time is incorrect, and when I set it with "date MMDDhhmm" as root it writes out that time and date in response, and then seems to ignore it since it returns an incorrect time on subsequent "date" commands.

Sometimes I really hate linux, this kind of stuff is just a load of unicorns, it should be as easy as setting the hands on a clock.