Raspberry Pi PIXEL Desktop

“Your connection is not private”

“Net::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID”

Attackers may try to steal your information from www.example-website.com (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards)

Date & Time

How to Fix Chromium Browser Connection Error?

raspberrypi:$ sudo raspi-config

raspberrypi:$ sudo date -s "2016-11-02 $(date +%H:%M:%S)"

Raspbian developers have finally decided to use such a modern browser likeas a default application and it's now a part of the new, I found that some users might not be able to get chromium to work due to some simple SSL error.If you encounter either one of these two errors on yourwhen running chromium browser:Followed by a message with a similar description as the warning block shown below:Then it is mostly related to the inability for chromium to create a valid SSL certificate due to timezone not being set correctly on the raspberry pi system. Chromium browser does that to improve the security by verifying whether sites are secure and private, and that is usually a very good procedure.However, having () set incorrectly will break that process and lead to error messages appearing on your screen preventing you from accessing any content on the web.Make sure that your raspberry pi is connected by an active internet connection of course, then set Date & Time accordingly through terminal by clicking on your keyboard (Ctrl + Alt + T):Then choose Internationalization option where you can set the timezone to reconfigure the date automatically. If you prefer to set it manually you can also try:That should do the trick I suppose, please do not hesitate to drop me a comment to share thoughts if you still have some more issues related to the same topic.