On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 07:19:02PM +0000, Marcin Gondek wrote:
Sep 02 21:11:52.000 [info] channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(): Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server at x.x.x.x:449. It seems that our clock is ahead by 1 hours, 19 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work: please check your time and date settings.
Should I worry about it? Logs seems to little strange and looks that other servers provide it's local time without any timezone.
It isn't a bug, but it is not great that some Tor relays have the wrong time. But so long as they aren't *too* wrong, it isn't the end of the world. I just counted them up, and I think there are about 30 relays with wrong clocks, out of the 6000 or so total. That's pretty good.
I think those relays are probably seeing complaints in their logs, since while you see those at info-level because they're not directory authorities, when you notice that a directory authority disagrees with your clock, it's logged at warn-level severity.
I wonder how to get them to notice more consistently?
--Roger