Looking at the complete fixrtc-mount script (the part which was fixed in bug 
#1623125 makes me think that this would fix your problem as well. And that with 
much less required change. That script checks not only mount but also create 
time of the fs. If create time is more recent than mount time, then it will set 
the time to that. And the time of creating the Ubuntu Core image should be 
recent enough to meet any expectations of the certificates. What I think has 
happened is that the "n/a" result was causing date to return an error. And 
because the scripts are executed with "-e" this would stop execution right 
there and the time was not set at all.
With the check for "n/a" as the change is in its original form, it would set 
mount time to 1999 but then use the create time which is newer. And since that 
is done pre-mount, this will set mount time to create time, too.

So right now I tend to mark this bug as duplicate of bug #1623125, then
get that fix in (preferred because it would be much smaller/simpler).
Should this turn out to not be enough, we still can un-dup and look for
a bigger solution. Thank you for your efforts, and sorry for me being so
resistant. I am just trying to fix the problem with as little change as
possible. The less change, the less one can break.

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