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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 2000 10:28:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Dave Runkle <drunkle@home.com>
Cc:        Freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Best Time Synch Utility
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000406102647.1032B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004060930370.40807-100000@xb.fiddi.com>

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On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Dave Runkle wrote:

> 
> A really simple one (and it's in the ports) is 'rdate', but size
> ain't everything. ;) The pkg is only 4k in size. It can be done via
> cron, once daily, weekly, whatever, stuck in periodic, or even
> executed from the command line, to set time on your machine or just
> to check time.
> 
> 	# /usr/local/sbin/rdate -s time.u.washington.edu
> 
> will set your box to the time at your favorite time-server, or just
> 
> 	$ /usr/local/sbin/rdate -p time.u.washington.edu
> 	Thu Apr  6 09:36:02  2000
> 	$
> 
> to give you the time. User privs to 'print' the time, root to
> actually set the machine. It has a ' -a ' switch to 'gradually skew
> the time' to match the server without a sudden hop. 
> 
> Dave

Can you tell me how precision this command rdate can achieve (ms or us)? 
Thanks. 

-Zhihui



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