RDATE
Section: Red Hat (1)
Updated: May 2001
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NAME
rdate - get the time via the network
SYNOPSIS
rdate
[-p] [-s] [-u] [-l] [-t sec] [host...]
DESCRIPTION
rdate
connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock.
OPTIONS
- -p
-
Print the time returned by the remote machine.
- -s
-
Set the system time to the returned time.
- -u
-
Use UDP instead of TCP as the transport.
- -l
-
Use syslog to output errors (cron.warning) and output (cron.info).
- -t
-
Set timeout in seconds for every attempt to retreive date.
HISTORY
- 2004-03-16 Johan Nilsson <joh-nils@dsv.su.se>
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Timeout support added.
- 2002-11-06 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
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Patch from Tomek Orzechowski <orzech@pld.org.pl> - alarm(10) to not wait
forever for connections.
- 2001-05-23 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com>
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Added UDP protocol support.
Close the connection after message handling in conformance to RFC 868.
- 2002-03-07 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
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Add syslog functionality.
- 2000-02-04 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
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Wrote it (previous incarnation had license problems, all 200 lines of it).