diff --git a/.github/workflows/ant.yml b/.github/workflows/ant.yml
index cadcf3ed51..51e90f7e8f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ant.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ant.yml
@@ -54,7 +54,11 @@ jobs:
           rm -f override.properties
           echo "build.built-by=GitHub Actions" >> override.properties
           echo "noExe=true" >> override.properties
-      - name: build with Ant
+      - name: test Debian build with Ant
+        run: ant distclean
+      - name: build mavenCentral deps with Ant
+        run: ant mavenCentral.deps
+      - name: build javadoc with Ant
         run: ant distclean javadoc updater
       - name: zip javadoc
         run: cp i2pupdate.zip build/javadoc/i2pupdate.zip && zip -r javadoc.zip build/javadoc
@@ -91,7 +95,9 @@ jobs:
           echo "build.built-by=GitHub Actions" >> override.properties
           echo "noExe=true" >> override.properties
           echo "javac.compilerargs=-bootclasspath $HOME/openjdk-7/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/rt.jar:$HOME/openjdk-7/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/jce.jar -Xlint:all" >> override.properties
-      - name: build with Ant
+      - name: build mavenCentral deps with Ant
+        run: ant mavenCentral.deps
+      - name: build Maven dev build with Ant
         run: ./installer/resources/maven-dev-release.sh 1
       - name: Upload servlet-i2p.jar
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
diff --git a/core/java/src/net/i2p/time/BuildTime.java b/core/java/src/net/i2p/time/BuildTime.java
index fffa47af08..4590bdeac8 100644
--- a/core/java/src/net/i2p/time/BuildTime.java
+++ b/core/java/src/net/i2p/time/BuildTime.java
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ public class BuildTime {
     private static final long _latestTime;
     private static final long YEARS_25 = 25L*365*24*60*60*1000;
     /** update this periodically */
-    private static final String EARLIEST = "2024-03-30 12:00:00 UTC";
+    private static final String EARLIEST = "2024-05-02 12:00:00 UTC";
     // fallback if parse fails ticket #1976
     // date -d 202x-xx-xx +%s
-    private static final long EARLIEST_LONG = 1711756800 * 1000L;
+    private static final long EARLIEST_LONG = 1714608000 * 1000L;
 
     static {
         // this is the standard format of build.timestamp as set in the top-level build.xml