Bug#313595: ITP: htpdate -- daemon to synchronize the local time via HTTP from a webserver

[Alexander Schmehl <alexander@schmehl.info>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alexander Schmehl <alexander@schmehl.info>


* Package name    : htpdate
  Version         : 0.8.2
  Upstream Author : Eddy Vervest <Eddy@cleVervest.com>
* URL             : http://www.clevervest.com/htp/development.html
* License         : GPL
  Description     : daemon to synchronize the local time via HTTP from a webserver

Although ntp is a well defined protocol and there are severel clients
available, you sometimes can't use any of them, for example since the
admin of your firewall is blocking ntp, but surely they don't block
HTTP.

Since Web-Servers are requested to add a timestamp to webpages they
deliver you can extract the specific header and use to synchronize your
local clock.  Not perfect, but if you use a nearby, fast webserver it
should be accurate enough for average users.

htpdate can be used either in a "run once, set time" or as a daemon,
which checks the time periodically and synchronizes the local time
smoothly.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-vinyamar
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)