#23677: Tor should log what it thinks the time is sometime(s) ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: pastly | Owner: (none) Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Medium | Milestone: Tor: 0.3.3.x-final Component: Core Tor/Tor | Version: Severity: Normal | Keywords: Actual Points: | Parent ID: Points: | Reviewer: Sponsor: | ------------------------------+-------------------------------- Many issues come from incorrect time/date/timezone settings. And not all the time does Tor log about how it believes the user's clock is wrong but X hours and Y minutes.
For many linux/macos users we can ask them to tell us the output of `date -u` as a huge troubleshooting help. But not everyone is capable of that. A maybe shouldn't be expected to be. Two ideas: 1. Log what Tor thinks the UTC time, local time, and configured timezone are at startup once 2. Log periodically (say, every HeartbeatPeriod) what Tor thinks[... all the above ...] Bonus idea: Can we put the timezone in the log line's time stamp? Would that be enough? Is that dangerous for users? Do we make promises about parse- ability that we'd be breaking? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23677> Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/> The Tor Project: anonymity online
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