[tor-bugs] #3156 [Tor Client]: Tor does not find .onion sites when manually setting pc clock

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#3156: Tor does not find .onion sites when manually setting pc clock
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 Reporter:  bia7        |          Owner:                     
     Type:  defect      |         Status:  new                
 Priority:  major       |      Milestone:                     
Component:  Tor Client  |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.2.25-alpha
 Keywords:              |         Parent:                     
   Points:              |   Actualpoints:                     
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 After changing my pc time manually one hour ahead to comply with the DST
 change in my country, Tor could not find any .onion sites (WWW still
 works)

 All the information I could get was a warning from the message log:
 May 12 21:26:37.484 [Warning] Received directory with skewed time (server
 '216.224.124.114:9090'): It seems that our clock is ahead by 1 hours, 1
 minutes, or that theirs is behind. Tor requires an accurate clock to work:
 please check your time, timezone, and date settings.
 Which in fact drove me to the solution, by reverting the time.

 However, this is not clear enough to the average user, so either there is
 a bug with handling manual time, or the user needs to be made aware that
 he must set the clock automatically.

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