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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

Tag	Description
-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

Tag	Description
2004-03-16 Johan Nilsson <joh-nils@dsv.su.se>
	Timeout support added.
2002-11-06 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
	Patch from Tomek Orzechowski <orzech@pld.org.pl> - alarm(10) to not wait forever for connections.
2001-05-23 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@redhat.com>
	Added UDP protocol support. Close the connection after message handling in conformance to RFC 868.
2002-03-07 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
	Add syslog functionality.
2000-02-04 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
	Wrote it (previous incarnation had license problems, all 200 lines of it).

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