# Unable to Activate License - Not Yet Valid

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unable-to-activate-license-not-yet-valid/38245>\
**Category:** Maker\
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unable-to-activate-license-not-yet-valid/38245 "2020-09-01T08:37:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jason.jones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jason.jones/32/18671_2.png) [@Jason.jones](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jason.jones)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unable-to-activate-license-not-yet-valid/38245/1 "2020-09-01T08:37:54Z")

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This one is strange! brand new install of Ignition couple of days old, it has access to the internet and I have applied the Maker license from the web site. When I go into “manage” it displays under the gateway IP my routers external public internet IP address and “last seen” anywhere between 5 and 30 minutes ago. On the ignition server under licensing it has the error "Not yet valid (now=‘2020-09-01T07:36:01.515684600Z’, nbf=‘2020-09-01T07:40:10.722Z’) … but it keeps shifting the nbf value forward in time!!! … so my license never becomes valid! computer clock is in sync with the “internet” … Anybody got any ideas .

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**Author:** ![Jason.jones](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jason.jones/32/18671_2.png) [@Jason.jones](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jason.jones)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unable-to-activate-license-not-yet-valid/38245/2 "2020-09-01T22:47:15Z")

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my mistake … it was not time synched to Internet… it is domain joined and the virtual PDC it was synched to was physical host time synched which had drifted 4 minutes. Fixed the PDC to use external NTP, which fixed the time, which fixed the license.

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**Author:** ![\_ArthurGooch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/_arthurgooch/32/19648_2.png) [@\_ArthurGooch](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/_ArthurGooch)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/unable-to-activate-license-not-yet-valid/38245/3 "2020-11-24T03:09:34Z")

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I just had exactly the same issue, so I definitely appreciate you posting the solution!