Installation error an error occurred while preparing for installation

Exactly what I needed, thank you!

Thanks! Super quick resolution to my issue.

I was having this very issue with the Mac pro and this was the only article I found that help my issue. Thank you

THANK YOU I’ve been finding a solution to upgrade my MBP 2011 from MacOS Lion and that popup shows up when the download gets interrupted.

this didn’t work

Amazing Thank You

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Hero status. Thanks for the info.

THANK YOU!!! IT WORKED PERFECTLY

THANK YOU!!!

Wow, got me past that point and was not expecting it. Thank you! Now dealing with “this item is temporarily unavailable”.

wow, after hours of trying to figure this out with bootable usbs, networks, internet restores, changing the time is what worked? Go figure, serves me right to think I could do it myself.

I … I love you. Lol Perfect article. Exact fix!

I tried it exactly as you wrote and I still
Get the error

If it is 4:00 pm, would I put 4, 04, or 16, thanks.

Thank you

Permission denied
Operation not permitted

Wow. So helpful! This was the fix I have been looking for

Brilliant. Glad I found this. Thanks!

Thank you, I was wondering why I couldn’t fix an iMac. This did the trick.

Thank you so much I just fixed up a MacBook Pro for my girlfriend and I was trying to see if everything was working smoothly and this popped up. You’re a lifesaver

Thanks so much! It does help!!

why when i write the my current date it says opperation not permitted?and denied?

I did all of the following options above even when I set upped the time and date correctly and try reinstalling the mac OS Sierra and I’m stillllll getting the same error “an error occurred while preparing the installation. try running this application again” What do I do pleaseeeee help

Really worked out. Thank you

Oh.. my… God… this really worked!!!! Thank you so much!!!! I thought this MacBook was doomed for good.

This worked perfect! Any idea why the mac wouldn’t get the time from the apple time servers? Seems strange.

Hi i have the issue of “this item is temporarily unavailable” please help.

still the same for me with errors

THANK YOU!!!! I am pretty tech savvy and couldn’t figure out how to fix my old MacBook Pro that I couldn’t get in to…you are the ONLY site and article that helped…THANK YOU!!! This article rocks, as do you.

This worked perfectly! Thank you.

after signing in with my apple id. a message appears, “This item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later.” any ideas what that might be?

Does your machine have any non-Apple memory installed. The installer doesn’t seem to like that.

worked!!!!!!!

Thank you so much!! This error was driving me crazy and your fix was easy to follow and resolved the problem straight away.

This was the solution for me after hours of trying to reinstall in various ways unsuccessfully. Genius! Thank you.

Wow!!! I would vote myself as THE happiest girl on the planet right now!!! Thank you SO much for sharing this little sliver of knowledge with us! I seriously cannot express my gratitude!

Holy crap. You are amazing and so helpful. Worked perfectly. Thank you!!!

Awesome !!
By going to terminal and changing the date ….it worked like a charm

oh thank you! thank you! this worked

This did not work. Do you have any other articles or suggestions to try?

I reset the date to the day after I first purchased El Capitan – same result. Is there anything in a log file that would indicate what verification test is failing?

Thank you SO MUCH for these instructions! I was totally stuck with the error for an old Mac Air reset and this really worked!

Hello, i want to make clean installation.
Delete everything and after that “Lion” OS can not install because have a problem.. and after 3 days searching and try to making smth i dont have a result.
In last video when i see, tried to make bootable flash with mojave macOS, and everything is worked until i got there.
Nothing works with this command “date”, try to change year, time.. everything and nothing.
Now i am stuck here.
Macbook Pro 15 – 2012

I did this and it says command not found

magical !!!thank you!!!

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It works great thank you very much. You saved my life

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Hi
I am in India and my brother sent over his old Mac Mini from the US, since he had barely used it. He had wiped it clean and said I should reinstall the OS. I followed the steps you have prescribed above in setting the date and time, but it still doesn’t work (it’s supposed to install Lion OS). The date and tine are showing up correct, but before the year it is showing PST,which I suppose is Pacific Standard Time. If that’s the case, how do I set it to IST – Indian Standard Time? If that is not the case, then how do I reinstall Lion? We don’t have Apple support available locally and hence I need to rely on online support forums or sites.
Please help.
Thank you.

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Make sure if time says PST you set you set it to PST not local time.
That worked great for me…

hi, thank you, can you tell me how to setup the time zone? should i do it when inputing time and date or before?
thanks

great help thank you

Did not work unfortunately.
Question though….
I am in New Zealand (NZT) and I set the time to UTC time, as UTC was the time zone listed.
Should I have done this or set the time to NZT regardless?

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date issue did not fix the problem. but i solved by format HDD using third party application, then use disk tools to format HDD.
the start the re-installation. and it works fine.

Installing mac os x lion 10.7 on macbook pro A 1278 after erase all data. Message apear on screen this item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. This message appear after sign in apple id.

I tried this, but the error still persists when I try to install. Any further recommendations of a fix?

thank you – I bought a wiped macpro and needed to reinstall the OS X and this worked.

Best page !

Hi, i’ve change the time successfully but the same issue shows up again.

Thank you, I’ve watched numerous videos and gone to numerous different sites, and yours is the only one that addressed this issue that I came across. I greatly appreciate you writing this help.

My Mac book I want reinstalled but not working ,it’s shows like this ” An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application what I need to do can u tell me this

Thanks Good job

i tried everything but not work for me…can you give me some other solution?

Thank you so much! So helpful.

Thank you! I was frustrated at continuing to experience this error and your simple fix has me on my way. I appreciate it.

Dude, this one had me breaking my head for a while.. thanks so much!

You are a complete genius! THanks!!!

I was stuck trying to reinstall Lion onto an early MacBook Air – this worked like a charm. Thanks

Excellent! thank you

this did not work for me cos the date and time was right

I tried but once I pressed enter it came up with ‘command not found’
and my terminal looks different to the example image.
mine says ‘bash terminal’ instead of ‘OWC terminal’ and it has the word ‘bash’ written in the space instead of the words you provided in the image,
what shall I do?

LIFESAVER!!! THANKS

Tried the above but when I entered date it came up with command not found.

yes i tried this with the date it came up as commond not found
have macbookpro on the terminal came up put the date came up jan2 22:38:35 PST2001
then put in 06267382019 that when command not found

Thank you! This fix worked perfectly. Now only if I can figure out why I can’t log in to the App Store……

Great advice. Worked perfectly and not too difficult to do even for an amateur like me!!

Thanks,

Install OS X An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again. OK

Worked perfectly… Thanks!!

when I did this I was able to switch time to my time , however it still says PDT , then I run the install and get the same error ….how do I switch to CDT

Brilliant! I don’t think I ever would have figured that out. Thank you!

Thank you for the instructions. It was very simple to correct.

Thank you for the instructions. It was very simple to correct.

Thank you so much

You Sir, are a hero!!! Thank you so much!!!!

WOW this worked! I have been trying to fix this for a year now and gave up decided to investigate and try one more time and it worked!!

Having similar issue but firmware time is correct? Trying to reinstall osx and getting same message? Any ideas?

Sensational. Worked exactly as you said it would. Thank you very much, I learned something tonight. Would be interesting to know why an incorrect date prevents the installation.

I faced this problem when installing El Capitan,10.11.6 from a local bootable usb to internal OWC SSD (yes,i put the SSD in first). I tried changing the date as in this article, and resetting with option + command + R + P and nothing helped.

Wow it worked. Its people like you that make having a Mac not a super huge headache.

thiis cool

hello
i am format my laptop and i click to restore but show me error

Thank you so much! i tried everything and even contacted apple and i could not find the answer for months! thank you so much!!!

I have followed the directions but it’s still saying command is not found. Also terminal- bash – 80×24 at the top and -bash-3.2# in the box

Thanks!

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! I Cannot Thank you Enough! My laptop has been stuck at that restart screen for about 4 years now and I was finally able to turn it back on after changeing the date through the terminal! Thank you!

I have tried this and it starts to go through however once it asks me to log into the apple store i receive another error not allowing me to log in. any advice?

Lifesaver! Thank you! Bless you!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!So helpful !!!

Thank you!!!!!

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That was unbelievably helpful! Thank you o much!!

This worked for my 2009 MacBook Pro, so strange how just changing the date and time affected installation

Thank you so much bro almost sold my laptop very informative kudos Time was set to 2001 lol wouldn’t connect to App Store this worked

I’ve spent days looking for a solution to this problem. THANK YOU!

A great help – thank you very much

Worked perfectly but after I agreed to terms of software license agreement and selected the main disk I sign in to the app store then it tells me “this item is unavailable” where do I go from there?

Followed your instructions perfectly but the installation won’t proceesame message is displayed again”Mac os x can’t be installed on this computer”
please is there any other solution to this.

Thanks. It helped

THANK YOU!!! You’re a lifesaver!!!

Genius! Thank you!!

I would like to thank you sooooo much
You’re an expert
This article is the most useful article I have ever seen

Hi, After entering the date time etc it comes up with command not found, is this because I’m entering the information wrong?

I have one more question: how do I change TZ. The date command shows PST, but I’m on a diferent Time Zone. Thanks!

hey thank you it worked for me but i couldnt get to install because it said the disk is locked how can i unlock it? reason im trying to reinstall is because my computer wont boot fully

Felt like a total hacker. It fixed my problem, thanks !

thank you

Huge. This fixed my problem. Thanks!

Thank you so much, this worked perfectly!

Mine is still giving me this error, it comes up after i have agreed to terms and conditions just as the system is about to restart. I have OS X Mavericks, trying to install macOs High Sierra, I have other updates that are still pending though…I need help, so many applications need the software to be updated before they will work.

I’ve done that but still comes up with the same thing

Thank you, this was what I needed. This article was very helpful.

I was trying to update a Virtual Machine with Lion, and this solved it for me. I just had to change in the System Preferences. Thanks for sharing!

I was trying to update a Virtual Machine with Lion, and this solved it for me. I just had to change in the System Preferences. Thanks for sharing!

Wow that worked very well. Thumbs up

I went to the terminal and entered the date and time as directed. I then tried to install macOS Sierra. It worked fine until the 20 second mark. Then I get the following message: “An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again.” Multiple runs give me the same result. Do you have any ideas as to what else I can do to make this work?

How do I do this can anyone help me out

OMG!! .. This is just what i was looking for.. Thanks so much.. It Worked!!

I use High Sierra and i cannot see the utilites tab above..?? What to do please help urgent

It worked!

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Used the Terminal, but the date is set correctly. Any other advise?

Nice one! Battery had died so date/time were wrong. Thank you.

This has saves my life!!! Thank you so much!

I have no experience rebooting or reinstalling Mac OS and minimal knowledge when I’ve done on PC. I was getting my MBP mid 2010 ready for my buddy who bought my laptop so i figured i would clean it for him. Got stuck with this error and forsure thought it was ruined. This fixed my problem ! Thank you so much.

Exactly what I needed! THANK YOU.

Just the ticket. Thank you Sir

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Thank you!

THANK YOU!

MacBookPro from 2009 and we’re writing the year 2018 .. and this trick worked! Thanks a lot.

The same error still appears after changing the date in terminal. Error comes at the last 12 seconds. Anyone able to help?

Hey it worked!! Thanks!

For everyone thats having problem installing because it cannot authorize your apple ID is because it still has old apple ID and password stored that had been used to register when buying the product. Best way around it is to download os x dmg file from getintopc but make sure u r downloading the OS thats been present in your macbook. Make a bootable USB out of it, press option when you turn it on and choose the bootable USB for Installation.
Second way is delete everything including the recovery partition to use internet recover (Option + command + R)
Hope it Helps.

Thank you for such a clear and simple answer.

Lifesaver! thanks

Your advice was right on the mark for fixing my problem. It is important to leave a space after “date” then it worked BEAUTIFULLY! Thank you much. I am not a tecky but I persevered to solve the problem that was challenging me for over an hour. Good Job!!!

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If this works I owe you a big kiss

Solved my problem, thanks!!

After I type the date it says “command not found” still stuck!

Now it says this item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Now what? Oh my days!

It worked! Thank you so much!

Your details were precise and effective. It worked all the way for me

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I get to the point where it says to enter your icloud username a pass, once I do it says “Currently Unavailable” Any suggestions?

Thanks for this!!!!

I’ve change the date via the terminal, but the same error still occurs.
don’t know what to do anymore.
any advise?

Saved my day! Thanks!

This tip about the time and date really saved the day! Just wanted to say thank you.

Yeah, been hearing for decades now how great macs are since they are so easy to use compared to those horrible windows machines… and then we have this nonsense. If it’s so great, why do I have to jerk around with setting the time in terminal just to get the damn OS to reinstall? Windows/Macintosh – same crap.

Amazing post – really works! Thanks for your help.

Thank you for these quick and easy instructions.

Wow after spending hours trying to get this done but to no avail .and then you happened and it stopped giving me the error..Thanks you the best

thank you. made my day.

You have alleviated almost 24 hours of stress!!! Thankful

Just tried this in 2018 and it worked like a charm – you’re a hero !

You saved me a trip to the Apple store! Thank you!!!

2018 and still working. Thanks!

Thank you!!! This was exactly what I needed to resolve my issue. I appreciate this!

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Awesome!!!!!!

This did not work for me. I inserted what is said above and in return its stated: -bash: date 112323342017: command not found. Is there any other way to try to fix this?

I appreciate it, Thank you for your time

If you have an internet connection, type “ntpdate -u time.apple.com” in the terminal to sync your time with Apple.

Thank you! This saved me!

Thank you. This worked for me as well.

Holy Crap! You have no idea how many man hours I’ve put in to try and figure out whats going on with my mac and this worked, +1,000 internet points for you! thanks mate!!!

After I followed your steps it worked perfect but then I’m prompted to enter my Apple ID and password ,after I click sign in I get an error that says “this item is temporarily unavailable “ try again later

Thank you so much for the fix, this was driving me nuts! All the best and thanks again!

I wish the best for you
Thnx alot

doesn’t always fix. it goes all the way to the end then does this

It works. Thanks.

What to do if the date in Terminal is correct?

Ayy we out here, thanks for the time saver

When I put in today’s date in the US format or UK format it comes up with ‘command not found’. Any ideas?
It says:
-bash: 091811092017: command not found

please am following your steps to reinstall my mac os but i cant find the “UTILITIES” for the “TERMAL”

Perfect!

OMG!!! Thank you! It worked!

Likewise for me and thanks for the tip!!

This worked perfectly thank you.

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Awesome!
I can’t understand why I couldn’t find this on Apples web!
Many thanks, you saved my day!

Thanks apple for letting me know that you cant intall because incorrect time. NOT!

I finally get installed the lion. Now I cannot upgrade to Capitain.
It’s a mess everything happens with this machine…

Hi it is not allowing me to put any number except zero et all in date… please help

Thanks a lot it worked for me

Totally worked!!!

IT WORKS PERFECTLY !! THANKS MATE!

This didn’t work I was trying to do eastern standard time

OMG life saver, such a simple fix to this annoying problem I have been dealing with. THANKS SO MUCH

I tried couple of times but didn’t solve my problem! Every time after reboot the date goes back to updated PDT. I live in Toronto but don’t know why it gets PDT agai.,? I have activated Filevault before crash, could it be the reason?

This worked perfect for me. Thanks for the tip.

Great… It worked.

I tried changing the date and time but I still get the message at the end of the install.

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what a weapon, thanks mayn

Good article and easy to follow. It saved me a trip to Apple store and saving some money as well!

You are a lifesaver. Thanks for this!

Hi, I changed the date/time but I still get the error msg right at the end of installation. Is there something I’m doing wrong ?

Thanks

Genius! Thanks.

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Seriously can’t thank you enough for this info! Saved me a trip into the busy Mac store! Thanks again!

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Thank you. It worked !!!

This does work but I have run into a snag…the download throws up a warning saying “this item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later.” Is there a solution to this hurdle

Thank you, thank you!

Bravo! Thanks so much!

Wow.. awesome thanks for such a simple solution.. Got frustrated after trying many times..!

Thanks alot
Very helpful
It worked

Hi. Ive tried the date change and i still get the unexpected error message. Any ideas?

thanks worked great however now tell me the item is temporarily unavaiable

Thank you so much. Worked immediately after following your steps. I had a feeling it wouldn’t work but i tried it anyway and Ii was so relieved when it did! Now I just have to wait 14 hours for OS X Yosemite to install

Having a hard time breathing while reading this Robert?! You should, cause I just gave you the tightest most loving virtual hug your virtual body has ever felt. Oh, and you probably felt a virtual kiss on your cheek too, that was from me. Thanks so much, I was wracking my brains for months wondering why a clean install was sticking. I’ll drink two beers for us later. Sorry, virtual drinking is frowned upon since I don’t know your age . Cheers mate!!

This solved it, thanks!
What confuses me is how a machine that is clever enough to offer to search and download software to run any printer you connect to it, on the other hand will download an entire operating system from the internet after being wiped clean, but then at the final hurdle an hour later cryptically say it cannot go on. Spend hours searching though bad leads and find this page that solves it. Defaulting to the Apple HQ time zone and then internally disputing it is kinda dumb! Apple programmers make some pretty basic mistakes. And the so called geniuses at Apple stores should be re-named something less. And the Apple support people should monitor the pages with problems that never seem to be solved. Rant over.

You are the most amazing guy. Thank you. Thank u. Very much!!! God bless you

Wow, I have been struggling with this with several mac for months. You are a genius. thanks.

Robert, thank you. I have been trying to find a solution to this issue for months, including various trips to the genius bar. Your instructions were clear to understand and easy to follow. Thanks again!

Command not found. Now what?

Thanks, helped me recover my wife’s Mac.

Issue fixed,, you are a genius!!!

Thanks so much, this was a total life/time saver.

Hi I had the same error problem, but i dont have access to my utility folder. I have already formatted my drive and i am installing mac os x with a macbook pro. do i have a simple fix as well? Please help.

I get an error that says permission denied, operation not permitted?

how do i access terminal

The ‘date’ is the main issue, but you may have to fudge the year when you reset the date. I just had to do a clean install of OS X Maverick on a new HD, and I kept getting an error msg about a possibly corrupt flash drive. I reset the date to 2015 through Terminal, and installation proceeded without a hitch… Once I was installed, I reset to the actual date…

WORKED perfectly. Life saver !!!

THANK YOU!!! It works everyone.

I’m getting Illegal date format in terminal.
“date 01018512017” is the command I’m using. Am I missing something?

Thanks, this helped me out.

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I’m getting “command not found”

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this tip worked like a charm,
was very frustrating until I found this.

Fixed my issue. Thank you so much.

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Thank you so much for documenting this. I think you just saved a lot of headache and my Friday night.

Thanks a lot..i was stuck when i tried to install windows via bootcamp because i wrongly created a bootable disk…was unable to reinstall osx for about a month…thanks

Seems to almost work but now saying “this disk is locked” what can I do
Thanks

Thank you so much!!!! I was chatting with an apple rep for like an hour and they couldn’t figure it out!!!

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I can’t access utilities to get to terminal. My system is wiped so when I boot up to try and install I have to bypass by using command R. Any suggestions?

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Thanks for the help worked perfectly

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This solved the problem perfectly for me thank you!

Excellent , it worked…but now i cant select the disk where it needs to be installed…
it is showing only Recovery HD

Excellent advice – Thanks!

Very helpful, thank you!

Setting the date didn’t work, but I found out how to see details on the error: Window->Installer Log (Cmd-L). This shows me that “the volume ‘untitled’ is read only”. Exiting out and going into the Disk Utility->Disk->Info(button), I saw that Writable=No. I searched the web and found this article: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4902757?tstart=0 that basically says my internal drive is malfunctioning, so it looks like I’m buying a new one. Hope this helps others

Well, I set the date and relaunched the installation. The error occured again. I checked the date. Its ok. What now?

Worked perfect thank you!!!! Bought second hand air book was stuck till I found this post your awesome!!!

Thank you for the instructions. I was able to reinstall after changing the date which was set incorrectly. I never would have thought the error was related to the date! Cheers!

Can you guide me because the terminal not working

A simple solution. Thank you!!

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This was exactly the problem I had and your suggested solution worked! Thank you a bunch!

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Good Afternoon, thank you so very much…..it was exactly the problem…solved with your tip very much appreciate it.

Thanks a lot ! Saved so much time and trouble.

perfect, thanks

I would just like to say thank you!! It worked great. Just got a MacBook Air ’14 for $240 through LetGo (kind of sketchy, I know) and it wouldn’t let me reset it, so I kind of thought it was goofed up. But you have provided a fix, so I thank you for your efforts.

Thank you!

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Thanks for this helpful link. It Works perfectly.
Thank you again !!!!

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Thanks so much for this info! Possibly for non-tech-savvy users, explain a little more about what to do when you say ” Exit the Terminal and run the OS X installer once more”. It was a little ambiguous for me Thanks champ!

It works!!!! Thank you so much

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I didn’t work on my Mac

Thank you!!!

It’s crazy how we miss the simple things such as the date! I was ready to replace memory chips and hard drive! Thanks a billion!

Thank you so much for this.

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I was really concerned about this issue and after following this simple instruction finally worked. Thank you very much.

Thanks a lot! It really helped!

I filled out this information and the issue seems to persist. I typed in ‘date 072820262016’. The time sets and seems correct but when I try to run the reinstall it doesn’t work. The only thing I’m noticing is that it says PDT and I’m in central time. Any suggestions?

You rock!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

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I googled the error because I had no idea how to bypass it and this page came up and it absolutely worked. Thanks!

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Hi I keep trying but it just says command not found and I’ve double checked the time was June 10 10:05 2016 I put 061010052016 is that correct

Worked like cham.. Thanks

Worked like charm! Thanks!

Thanks! this is really great

Great – it worked! Thank you.
I forgot to add date the first time and thought oh no.

Awesome! your fix helps me. thanks

Hi, I bought a used MacBook Pro from scrap dealer, it had no HDD, after putting a new HDD, I am not getting this same error message though I have followed the instructions step-by-step. Help

I followed all the instructions and still getting same error, then I tried this and worked well.
Turn off mac
On start up press and hold command,option and R then Mac will go into the internet recovery mode. when the loading is finished, ( I had attempted twice) you will be able to install OS X

What if, after checking it through terminal, the date is correct, but it still displays the error box?

No luck for me still same problem

Fantastic, worked great!

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This works!!! Thank you so much!!

You guys have just been incredible throughout this whole learning process. Psyched!!! Thank you!!

love you, that was killing me

thanks! had exactly that problem.. nice clear solution

The terminal won’t open in Yosemite 10.10 recovery,when I click on it, the wheel spins for 1-2 minutes, and then nothing. What do I do? help!

I’m having the same problem as @Adam, has anyone found any other way to solve this issue? I’m unable to reinstall El Capitan from recovery mode at all. It keeps giving me the same error message even if I’ve got the right date settings in terminal. Could it be an issue with the time zone?

FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks – succinct and accurate!

Awesome! Love it when a solution is offered clearly and works!

Thank for this!! Worked after changing the date!

Nice, worked a charm for my new SSD.

I’m trying to reinstall El Capitan from recovery mode, because that’s all my Mac will boot in for now, and it keeps giving me this exact error message. I’ve checked the date, it’s correct. I have no idea what it’s deal is, but this has been going on for 2-3 days. I haven’t been able to use my Mac at all and I’m frustrated beyond belief. Please reply asap. Thanks in advance.

That didn’t work for me

If it’s PM, shouldn’t you enter “date 061922462015”?