[tor-bugs] #3156 [Tor Client]: Tor does not find .onion sites when manually setting pc clock

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#3156: Tor does not find .onion sites when manually setting pc clock
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    Reporter:  bia7        |       Owner:                     
        Type:  defect      |      Status:  reopened           
    Priority:  major       |   Milestone:                     
   Component:  Tor Client  |     Version:  Tor: 0.2.2.25-alpha
  Resolution:              |    Keywords:                     
      Parent:              |      Points:                     
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Comment(by arma):

 Replying to [comment:3 bia7]:
 > Nonetheless, people are actually LEGALLY ALLOWED to change the clock on
 their PC.

 You're allowed to change your clock, but if you change it to the wrong
 time, Tor features will start breaking. This is a security feature, to
 prevent people from partitioning you if you have a different network view
 than other users.

 > And Tor says NOTHING about it disabling .onion access, I was stuck on
 this issue for over a month, and I'm sure others are as well.
 > Why close this and not at least act on my other suggestion to make the
 user AWARE that this is the problem??
 > This is a very big issue, please don't just disregard it.

 Well, we do say tell you to fix your clock on
 https://torproject.org/docs/faq#DoesntWork

 And the warning message you saw in your logs also triggers a new entry in
 Vidalia's simplified message window.

 I agree that neither of these are perfect. How else should we try to make
 the user aware that a wrong clock equals a not-working Tor?

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