the recovery server could not be contacted - final solution

the recovery server could not be contacted
It appears that this has to do with the time on the machine not being synchronized, so when the MacBook tries to reach out to the recovery server the certificates do not validate and we get this useless error message.

To fix this.
Open up a Terminal from the utilities menu

Enter 'time' then enter

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