Don't know that it will help, but can commiserate a little...(!) 
We recently ran into a similar issue, ours related to notAfter: 
In recent testing, we were able to issue a certificate with a notAfter field 
without error, but 

(this was against a PostgreSQL server, if it helps): 
LOG: could not accept SSL connection: no certificate returned 

So, in verifying the cert, bingo! 
$ openssl verify (etc) 
error 14 at 0 depth lookup:format error in certificate's notAfter field 
(same test was OK on server, so is this an OpenSSL version issue?) 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:56:48 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: problem with creating cert with openssl x509 

I am trying to create a certificate with specific starting and ending dates. I 
searched around and it seems the parameter for -startdate from x509 is 
YYMMDDHHMMSSZ but when i tried to put the parameter: 
"-startdate 091119111506Z" i get unknown option 091119111506Z error. The 
statement in the script is something like: 
openssl x509 -req -sha1 ${DAYSTILLEXPIRE} ${STARTDATE} ...... 
DAYSTILLEXPIRE is "-days 10" and that works fine but it doesnt like the 
parameters i put for STARTDATE.... anyone can help me out? thanks! 




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