Re: [tor-relays] Question about authority clock skew

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 01:41:41PM +0000, torjoy wrote:

I was browsing the "Consensus health" page and something let me curious... What is the importance of the clock skew in the authorities with the resolution of microseconds?

Sebastian's answer is exactly right.

I've just opened https://bugs.torproject.org/33896 because you're right, there's no way the level of precision that consensus-health reports is at all accurate.

So considering the microssencond accuracy

Using the definitions that "precision" is how many digits you're providing, and "accuracy" is how right you are, I'd say that we're giving you microsecond precision but not microsecond accuracy. :)

Thanks, --Roger