Which edge cases come up around “Offline mode”, in particular regarding clock skew?

An explicit mode in which the launcher and app make no network request at all, like a game launcher's offline mode. Plan for: clock skew; expired manifests cannot be detected offline; mixed online and offline devices. It is designed in a document and no code exists.

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