Re: A question about some network services
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 06:56:30PM +0200, eim wrote:
> 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.
Sorry that's not that I wanted to say. Just rdate is a well known tool
because it's an old tool (tcp/ip is old too, and we use it every days;-)
when to use ntp/rdate well, it depends...-:)
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