Azure Storage Error Using Python Sdk

I've download Azure SDK for python to my Ubuntu (Tool version 0.8.16). And i'm trying to run this code from azure.storage import BlobService blob_service = BlobService(account_nam

Solution 1:

As mentioned in the error:

Request date header too old: 'Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:06:59 GMT'

You will get this error if difference between the date/time on your computer (in UTC) and date/time on Azure Storage Server is more than 15-20 minutes (your computer's date/time is behind that of Azure).

UPDATE

Essentially what happens is that when a request is sent to Azure Storage Service (e.g. create container) the SDK takes the local date/time of your computer, converts it into UTC and then sends it to Azure along with the request (as a request header either date or x-ms-date). Upon receiving the request, among other things Azure Storage service compares this date/time with its date/time and if the difference is more than 15-20 minutes (your clock is behind), Azure Storage service throws the error you're getting. This is done as a security measure so that in case somebody got hold of your request can't replay the request over and over again.

Solution 2:

I get similar errors due to clock skew after resuming WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) sessions from sleep then using the Azure cli from the bash/zsh command line. This fixes the clock:

sudo hwclock -s -v

See: Fixing clock skew with WSL 2

Update: This bug seems to be fixed in WSL kernel version 5.10.16.3-microsoft-standard-WSL2. After upgrading, I haven't seen it. See: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5014#issuecomment-605243281