diff -ur a/src/urllib3/connection.py b/src/urllib3/connection.py
--- a/src/urllib3/connection.py	2023-10-17 10:26:30
+++ b/src/urllib3/connection.py	2024-01-17 08:03:33
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 
 # When it comes time to update this value as a part of regular maintenance
 # (ie test_recent_date is failing) update it to ~6 months before the current date.
-RECENT_DATE = datetime.date(2022, 1, 1)
+RECENT_DATE = datetime.date(2023, 8, 1)
 
 _CONTAINS_CONTROL_CHAR_RE = re.compile(r"[^-!#$%&'*+.^_`|~0-9a-zA-Z]")