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> [...] discover that WhatsApp doesn’t work on it due to a weird message > "Your phone date is inaccurate! Adjust your clock and try again." > I have no idea wh
by cakoose 7y ago
> [...] discover that WhatsApp doesn’t work on it due to a weird message
> "Your phone date is inaccurate! Adjust your clock and try again."
> I have no idea what do date issues have to do with not starting WhatsApp but fixing the date and time didn’t help [...]
Some network protocols use timestamps for security. For example, OAuth 1.0 HMAC used timestamps as part of its mechanism for preventing replay attacks.
I have no particular insight into what WhatsApp is doing, though.
- _diskin_ 7y agoAs you say that should be the reason, but it seems that in most cases documented online fixing the date and time doesn't actually fix the error message, nor updating WhatsApp to latest version...
- _diskin_ 7y agoand one more thing - this type of error shouldn't prevent WhatsApp from starting in any good programming practice; just from communicating with the network...