I had this just now, on Xubuntu Feisty, and it took a little time to
find a workaround, since sudo -K didn't help at all, and so I couldn't
do anything as root.  I found an article in the Absolute Beginners'
Forum (yes, this is a usability issue) and posted my experiences and
workaround at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3385517#post3385517 - this
really does need fixing, as it was only the CMOS clock that was wrong,
not the system clock.

Why is sudo dependent on the CMOS clock at all?  Normally I'd expect
this to be read on boot and written on shutdown, and never used apart
from that.

I generally like the idea of sudo'ing, but I've now created a root
password just in case.

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