[tor-relays] Relay's clock settings off no matter what

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 14/11/14 17:59, Austin Bentley wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have an interesting problem. I am monitoring my relay using arm. I am
> getting the following warnings:
>
>  >05:56:12 [WARN] Received directory with skewed time (server
> '154.35.32.5:80'): It seems that our clock is behind by 1 hours, 0
> minutes, or that theirs is ahead. Tor requires an accurate clock to
> work: please check your time, timezone, and date settings.
>
> Most of the messages tell me that my clock is an hour behind. However, I
> also get these messages occasionally (but not as often):
>  >02:07:27 [WARN] Our clock is 52 minutes, 35 seconds behind the time
> published in the consensus network status document (2014-11-14 02:00:00
> UTC).  Tor needs an accurate clock to work correctly. Please check your
> time and date settings!
>
>
> I am running a Tor exit relay on a FreeBSD VPS. Said VPS is in Czech
> Republic. If I set the time to CET, it is 1 hour behind true CET
> (GMT+1); therefore, I have it set to EET (GMT+2.)  I have verified the

Sounds like something is broken here, maybe a daylight saving issue? Are 
you running ntp?

Chris

> time is correct in Czech Republic. This problem is rather frustrating
> because it is causing my server to throw away circuit data as old data.
>
> Could someone shine some light on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Austin
>
>
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