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?
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 -- ++ GnuPG Key -> http://www.t-online.de/~holger.eitzenberger ++
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