Friday, December 29, 2023

E: Release file for http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 6h 16min 9s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

 If y'all see this type of error while updating a distro on y'all's Windows Subsystem for Linux like so:


~$ sudo apt update

[sudo] password for alex:

Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease

Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]

Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]

Hit:4 https://pkg.cloudflare.com focal InRelease

Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease

<snip>

Reading package lists... Done

E: Release file for http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 6h 16min 9s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

E: Release file for http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-updates/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 6h 16min 50s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.


issuing this command:


~$ sudo hwclock --hctosys


should allow you to update normally...

~$ sudo apt update

Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease

Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]

Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease

Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]

Hit:5 https://pkg.cloudflare.com focal InRelease

<snip>

Fetched 229 kB in 10s (22.1 kB/s)

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

All packages are up to date.

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