[tor-talk] Will Tor affect Internet Explorer? (newbie question)

[mirimir]

On 07/16/2013 02:37 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

> On 15 July 2013 20:19, Gabrielle wrote:

SNIP

>> Also, what is Microsoft Time of Day?
> 
> So there are these servers on the internet whose job is to report the
> current time of day.  They are called time servers.  They are very
> useful if you have a network of computers and you'd like them all to
> be set to the same time.  Anyway, Windows can be configured to reach
> out to a time server and get the current time so your computer's clock
> can be adjusted. ...

All operating systems do that. Indeed, Tor clients won't connect if
local time isn't synchronized accurately enough. Also, time
synchronization errors break anonymity.