[tor-bugs] #5506 [Tor]: Do we just keep downloading a consensus if our clock is wrong?

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#5506: Do we just keep downloading a consensus if our clock is wrong?
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 Reporter:  arma        |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect      |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  major       |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor         |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  tor-client  |         Parent:                    
   Points:              |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by nickm):

 Just made a tor that can become confused about its time in branch
 "timewarp."  (It's not a general solution for computers whose clocks are
 set wrong, since those really want a distinction between the system time
 and the network time.  It looks at a #define in compat.c to see what time
 offset to use. It is not expected to *work* -- the interesting bit is
 about how it breaks.)

 It doesn't appear that we go crazy downloading like mad.  I only ran it
 for a few minutes in either case, but it behaved consistently with
 download_status_t schedules when I put it 72 hours in the past or 72 hours
 in the future.

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