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by keeda 106 days ago
My theory, having seen what happens due to incorrect date/time settings on Windows (e.g. rebooting a laptop after the battery has been drained for extended durations):

1. The time, and critically date, is wrong (not syncing with the NTP servers, potentially due to ISP filtering, as the sibling comment implies)...

2. Which is causing SSL errors because the wrong date causes the expiry date on the SSL certificates to appear nonsensical...

3. Which causes connection failures to pretty much any HTTPS endpoint...

3. Which is preventing updates because no sane OS would download updates over an insecure connection.