What time server do you use?

[James Knott]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 05:15:26PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
>
>    
>>    time.nrc.ca seems to have stopped working for me.
>>      
>    Make that rdate seems to have stopped working for me.  I tried various
> servers, and got a timeout error each time.  I just did an upgrade to
> Gentoo baselayout 2, and I'm wondering if that's involved.  I'll take
> this problem to the Gentoo users list.
>
>    
Why are you still using rdate?  Here's what Wikipedia says about it:

"On Unix-like <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Unix-like> 
operating systems, *rdate* is a tool for querying the current time from 
a network server and, optionally, setting the system time 
<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/System_time>. Rdate uses 
the Time Protocol 
<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Time_Protocol>. The Time 
Protocol is generally considered obsolete and has been replaced by the 
Network Time Protocol 
<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol> 
(NTP)."

Perhaps time.nrc.ca has dropped support for rdate.

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