How to force gpg2 to use expired key?

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How to encrypt? There are no updates for the key available from keyservers. Messages should be seen if user still has that expired key or not seen at all. Is there some option that will allow to do this without of changing the source code of GPG?

Error Output

$ gpg -ear XXXXXXX
gpg: XXXXXXXX: skipped: unusable public key

$ gpg --debug-ignore-expiration -ear XXXXXXXX
gpg: Invalid option "--debug-ignore-exp…

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Use the option: I would prefer an option that would force encryption to an expired key while also recording the correct time (especially when signing).

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