Re: rdate(8) manpage clarification

2007-04-13 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Friday, April 13, 2007 at 01:25:58 +0059, Jason McIntyre wrote: >On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:34:25PM +0200, Maurice Janssen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The manpage for rdate(8) uses the -c option in the examples at the >> bottom (leap second correction), but the given host (ptbtime1.ptb.de) >> doesn't n

Re: rdate(8) manpage clarification

2007-04-13 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Thursday, April 12, 2007 at 23:21:28 -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: >On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:34:25PM +0200, Maurice Janssen wrote: >> The manpage for rdate(8) uses the -c option in the examples at the >> bottom (leap second correction), but the given host (ptbtime1.ptb.de) >> doesn't need t

Re: rdate(8) manpage clarification

2007-04-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:34:25PM +0200, Maurice Janssen wrote: > The manpage for rdate(8) uses the -c option in the examples at the > bottom (leap second correction), but the given host (ptbtime1.ptb.de) > doesn't need this. SNTP gives time in UTC, but some sysadmins would prefer to synchronize

Re: rdate(8) manpage clarification

2007-04-12 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:34:25PM +0200, Maurice Janssen wrote: > Hi, > > The manpage for rdate(8) uses the -c option in the examples at the > bottom (leap second correction), but the given host (ptbtime1.ptb.de) > doesn't need this. In fact, I've never come across a time server that > needed -c

rdate(8) manpage clarification

2007-04-12 Thread Maurice Janssen
Hi, The manpage for rdate(8) uses the -c option in the examples at the bottom (leap second correction), but the given host (ptbtime1.ptb.de) doesn't need this. In fact, I've never come across a time server that needed -c, but I suppose there are some servers out there that need it. Anyway, I thi