change local time and activate ?

[BrianChao]

Hi Wyatt;

I change my local time on my test host and activate product key through online.
I get error message
“Failed because your system date and time settings are incorrect. Fix your date and time settings, restart your computer, and try to activate again.”
from Activate() function.
but I check activation on LimeLM web site and the activation count increase one.
Why, Is it rule of LimeLM ?
It’s confused to me , if activate failed on local and the activation count won’t be increase one in my image.

Thanks.

[Wyatt]

The date and time has to be correct to activate. The solution is to fix the date/time and re-activate. It will still use that 1 slot.

Does that make sense?

[BrianChao]

I got your point but after that I have test more situations.
when I changed local time on windows it will display “Failed because your system date and time settings are incorrect. Fix your date and time settings, restart your computer, and try to activate again.” and the activation count increase one.
but I changed local time on linux,it can do activation whiteout any error message and the activation count increase one.
different behaviors on different OS.
It’s still confused to me,which one is correct ?

[Wyatt]

It’s still confused to me,which one is correct ?

The behavior on Windows is correct. We have fraud protection on Linux, but it differs in this case due to structural differences between Windows and Linux.

Thus, the date/time has to be correct on both Windows and Linux to ensure a successful activation.

[Guest]

Hi Wyatt;
have any workaround in linux ?
because my customer get me a checklist about security without this I can not deliver my AP with LimeLM to my customer.

Thanks

[Wyatt]

I don't quite understand. The end-user has the time wrong on Linux by design? Why are they doing that? What's the security reason behind it?

The solution is to set the correct time, set the correct timezone, then restart the computer.

[BrianChao]

Thanks