Tor should log what it thinks the time is sometime(s)
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 by 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:
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Log what Tor thinks the UTC time, local time, and configured timezone are at startup once
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Log periodically (say, every HeartbeatPeriod) what Tor thinks [... all the above ...]
Bonus idea:
Can we put the timezone in the log line's timestamp? Would that be enough? Is that dangerous for users? Do we make promises about parse-ability that we'd be breaking?
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