The sudo man page says that -k and -K should reset the timestamp. If
that's not really what they do, could the man page be updated to
describe their actual functions? (What do they really do?)

Since this is something that seems to happen pretty commonly during the
edgy install process (comments in the two bugs here, plus lots of google
hits), it would be really useful to have a way of doing what the man
page says -k/-K do: reset the timestamp now, so that the next call to
sudo will prompt for a password. Currently, once it gets into this state
there's no way of getting out, unless you have some other way of
resettting the system clock; sudo just keeps repeating the error message
and -k and -K don't fix it.

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"sudo -k" fails when timestamp is in the future
https://launchpad.net/bugs/43233

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