[tor-bugs] #6894 [Tor]: answer network time requests

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#6894: answer network time requests
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 Reporter:  proper                     |          Owner:                  
     Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  major                      |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Tor                        |        Version:                  
 Keywords:  tor-client needs-proposal  |         Parent:  #3059           
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Comment(by proper):

 > Example answer:
 > Wed Sep 19 02:02:22 UTC 2012

 Better return [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time unix time]. I mean,
 in *nix/bash:
 date +%s
 1367722422

 That's simpler to use in external applications:

 date --set "@1367722422"

 date --date "@1367722422"
 Sun May  5 02:53:42 UTC 2013

 Replying to [comment:5 ioerror]:
 > I'm interested in adding it as a very small feature of tor to log the
 remote time from servers - we could then also hand it off to a helper -
 who could then set the time securely.

 I shared some thoughts on that in comments of #8170.

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