Warning : Check your system ( Help me )

Any suggestions for better text to put for this error message so the next person will be less likely to be confused?

It’s trying to tell them their clock is wrong and they need to correct it.

It’s relying on 3 time sources:

1. the system clock
2. the other nodes, if within an hour of the system clock if those disagree, then
3. the user (asking the user to fix the system clock)

I’ve thought about NTP, but this is more secure.

Quote from: Insti on September 06, 2010, 12:51:37 PMQuote from: satoshi on September 05, 2010, 11:36:20 PMAny suggestions for better text to put for this error message so the next person will be less likely to be confused? “Please check that your computer’s date and time are correct. If your clock is wrong Bitcoin will not work properly.” Thanks.

I don’t understand, are you under the impression that the program sets the system clock?  It doesn’t.

Quote from: Cdecker on September 19, 2010, 08:14:08 PMWe already have ways to synchronize (approximately) the clients, so why not make use of that? We use an internal offset based on the median of other nodes’ times, but for security reasons we don’t let them offset us by more than an hour.  If they indicate we’re off by more than an hour, then we resort to alerting the user to fix their clock.