[tor-relays] Is this HAL?

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:37:59AM -0400, staticsafe wrote:
> On 9/21/2013 12:08 AM, I wrote:
> >What should be made of this considering there can't be many computers still
> >running from 1970?
> >
> >Sep 21 05:22:01.021 [Warning] Received NETINFO cell with skewed time from server
> >at 76.73.17.194:9090.  It seems that our clock is ahead by 15969 days, 3 hours,
> >22 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work:
> >please check your time and date settings.
> 
> Somebody messed up their system clock, that is the Unix epoch (or
> close to it anyways).

Actually it was a shiny new bug:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9798

Once turtles upgrades (or downgrades), the incorrect log messages should
stop. Fortunately I think they only show up on relays, not clients,
so we only have a few thousand anxious people. :/

Thanks!
--Roger