rdate (1) Linux Manual Page
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 retrieve date.
History
- 2004-03-16 Johan Nilsson <joh-nils [at] dsv.su.se>
- Timeout support added.
- 2002-11-06 Elliot Lee <sopwith [at] redhat.com>
- Patch from Tomek Orzechowski <orzech [at] pld.org.pl> – alarm(10) to not wait forever for connections.
- 2001-05-23 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch [at] redhat.com>
- Added UDP protocol support. Close the connection after message handling in conformance to RFC 868.
- 2002-03-07 Elliot Lee <sopwith [at] redhat.com>
- Add syslog functionality.
- 2000-02-04 Elliot Lee <sopwith [at] redhat.com>
- Wrote it (previous incarnation had license problems, all 200 lines of it).