After some fiddling found out that the -startdate option ONLY works
when the -enddate option is set as well.
Anyone knows who is reponsible for the documentation, he/she may be
interested.
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Min Sheng Lu
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 5:58 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: ca -startdate
>
>
> I am trying to sign certificates with a future start date (Using OpenSSL
> 0.95a).
>
> The documentation says that use -startdate date (which is in YYMMDDhhmmssZ
> format) but ca command seems to ignore dates in the form 010601010101Z and
> sets the startdate to the default current time.
>
> Just wondering
> 1. Does ca -startdate actually work, some old threads have
> mentioned that it
> does not.
>
> 2. If it does work (since the functionality is documented) what
> do I need to
> do?
>
> Thanks
> Min
>
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