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Certainly not a computer expert, but consider the option that the battery on your motherboard might be running low. If the hardware itself is older, I would try swapping the button cell. I've seen many weird issues get resolved this way, although in theory it should not mess up anything but system time.
Yes, I can't see why this would explain my computer suddenly demanding that I must change my password, which is what I am most interested to know the reason for.
Linux passwords can be set to expire. A non-expiring password is sometimes just set to expire so far in the future that it will not be reached by the user (such as 100 or 200 years). A really broken clock could surpass that and cause expiry.
I was thinking potentially if the system thinks the password was set 200 years in the future it would also be invalid