I was thinking of like running date without a daemon, such as; $ date --sync time-a.nist.gov
But maybe you're right. Date should be simple, and I can use ntpd instead. On Feb 16, 2008 7:02 AM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred . wrote: > > Why is there no 'time synchronization' feature in the 'date' software > > that comes with GNU Coreutils? > > Tasks such as that require a long running deamon process to keep the > system in step with the outside world. The date command is a simple > run and exit command. It is not designed to be a daemon. Also very > good alternatives already exist. It wouldn't make sense to duplicate > that code in date. > > > It would be nice to be able to sync the date with remote Internet > > time servers. > > See the ntpd project. It is the standard upon which all others > build. If you are running a standard software distribution then it is > very likely that ntpd is already included. > > http://www.ntp.org/ > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol > > Bob > _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
