It is reportedly there is a big internal memo distributed to the reps today.

Yours was done on Weekend Aug 10. Today is Aug 13. With things now coming down the wire I am not sure information on the weekend or Friday which was August 10, the date of issuance of your cert, are even relevant.

If you have read my long post regarding the experiences I had this morning, you would read about the rep I got this morning initially reissued new cert with Aug 13 date but he took the trouble to IMMEDIATELY canceled it and redid one backdated to June 1st. If he is not being told to pay attention of keeping the original expiration date, I doubt he would go back to fix his inadvertent mistake which would not have been a mistake based on the usual practice, but apparently the unofficial extension mechanism is now being stopped.