Stop declining to download microdescs with future published times.

This change is the only one necessary to allow future versions of
the microdescriptor consensus to replace every 'published' date with
e.g. 2038-01-01 00:00:00; this will save 50-75% in compressed
microdescriptor diff size, which is quite significant.

This commit is a minimal change for 0.2.9; future series will
reduce the use of the 'published' date even more.

Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/or/networkstatus.c b/src/or/networkstatus.c
index 2d39c90380..991cf80121 100644
--- a/src/or/networkstatus.c
+++ b/src/or/networkstatus.c
@@ -2360,11 +2360,6 @@ client_would_use_router(const routerstatus_t *rs, time_t now,
      * But, if we want to have a complete list, fetch it anyway. */
     return 0;
   }
-  if (rs->published_on + options->TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime
-      > now) {
-    /* Most caches probably don't have this descriptor yet. */
-    return 0;
-  }
   if (rs->published_on + OLD_ROUTER_DESC_MAX_AGE < now) {
     /* We'd drop it immediately for being too old. */
     return 0;