OS X installation failure due to incorrect system date “This copy of the Install OS X Mavericks application can’t be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading.” May occur with other versions of OS X besides OS X 10.9 Mavericks as well, when attempting to install OS X from USB flash drive. If the installation media is known good, the system date may be too far off for OS X to verify. If the system time and date is too far off, within the OS X installation this may be fixed within the terminal window, using the command: date to show current system date. date mmddhhmmyyyy to set the date (month day hour minutes year).