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@@ -338,7 +338,11 @@ more arguments in future versions.
KEYEXPIRED <expire-timestamp>
The key has expired. expire-timestamp is the expiration time
- in seconds after the epoch.
+ in seconds sice Epoch. This status line is not very useful
+ because it will also be emitted for expired subkeys even if
+ this subkey is not used. To check whether a key used to sign
+ a message has expired, the EXPKEYSIG status line is to be
+ used.
Note, that TIMESTAMP may either be a number with seconds since
epoch or an ISO 8601 string which can be detected by the