'CERT_NOT_YET_VALID'

[Mr-Cruff]

Good day guys,

I'm trying to test the SimpleStorage hardhat example which connects to the testnet but I'm having some issues and would appreciate some assistance.
At the point of doing this tutorial exercise, the recommended testnet is sepolia.
Below you'll see the error as populated in the commandine:

I did some checks and came across similar issues but the fix was ensuring the time on the device is in sync with the server or at least the actual time. Seeing as I'm using WSL, I ran the date command and found the date to be off by a few hours so I set the date to the current time and date but the issue persisted.

I'm probably doing something super wrong so any help would be great.

Attached is my deploy script.