clerk-clock-skew-jwt

Use for Clerk JWT and session token clock-skew issues. PROACTIVELY activate for "token-not-active-yet", "JWT cannot be used prior to not before", token-expired, nbf/iat/exp claim failures, clockSkewInMs in verifyToken/authenticateRequest, local dev container/WSL2/Docker Desktop time drift, NTP misconfiguration, paused VM clock, serverless cold-start clock issues, custom JWT template verification leeway across Node/Python/Go/Ruby/Java/.NET/PHP, debugging iat vs server-time delta, and separating real expiry from clock skew. Provides nbf/iat/exp semantics, Clerk and library clock-tolerance defaults, container time fix recipes, multi-language leeway patterns, diagnostics, and gotchas.