I mentioned a couple days ago that I had a heck of a time posting to my blog – that Windows Live Writer saw an expired security certificate and refused to connect. Well, the problem has been solved.
An on-line search of the error led to an easy fix:
Certificate will not be valid until (date)
(site name) uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate has expired. The certificate will not be valid until (date). (Error code: sec_error_expired_issuer_certificate)
This error can occur if your computer clock has the wrong date, in which case the date given in the error message will be in the past. To fix the problem, set your system clock to today's date and time (double-click the clock icon on the Windows Taskbar).
Sure enough, a check of my computer’s calendar showed the date as February 3 instead of March 3. I have no idea how or why that happened, but correcting the date solved the problem.
There is an option in the Date and Time setup that is supposed to prevent this problem from happening. Obviously, it is not foolproof.
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