Re: A question about some network services
First of all thanks to all for responses.
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 20:22, Holger Eitzenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:16:03AM +0200, Emmanuel Lacour wrote:
>
> > > 'time' is RFC 868, a pre-NTP time synchronization protocol. It just
> > > sends the time as a 32-bit int, where:
> > >
> > > "The time is the number of seconds since 00:00 (midnight) 1 January 1900
> > > GMT, such that the time 1 is 12:00:01 am on 1 January 1900 GMT; this
> > > base will serve until the year 2036."
> > >
> > > I think it sends it big-endian, but I'm not sure.
> >
> > Is it used by the old rdate tools?
Old rdate tools ? I use them regulary to update my
servers with the current time, is it more convenient
to install an NTP server on my local network ?
Thanks.
>
> Indeed. It's quite usefull if you don't have a NTP server at
> hand, e. g. behind a firewall. It's not ok if you need accuracy
> of less than 1 sec.
>
> /Holger
>
>
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