The signatures expired early October of this year so any date before that usually works. Same for anything Mountain Lion- Mojave.
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iPad mini iPad Mini 4 vs. 5 -which one to get?
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Get a mini 5! Why get a generation older when you can get brand new for a good price already...?
That's what I thought too.
But how come "date 080112002019" (Aug 1, 12:00:00 PDT 2019") works while "date 1010101015" (Oct 10 10:10:00 UTC 2015") doesn't?
I think you should always buy the latest one you can afford. It'll have the upper hand in performance, longevity and fixing any issues with the previous generation where possible. The Mini 5 is a huge leap ahead of the Mini 4 due to the length of time between models being released.
Just my guess (don’t take this as a fact) is that you cannot set the date before the OS was released. The certificate would probably throw an error that way. macOS sierra came out in 2016.
Certificates have effective dates as well as expiration dates. The 2015 date is probably earlier than the cert’s effective date.
We assume they were signed while it was released, and they all expired this October. Pretty easy to get in between those dates. August of 2019 should work for all of them.