What time server do you use?

[James Knott]

Here's the Wikipedia quote, without all the HTML code:

"On Unix-like operating systems, rdate is a tool for querying the 
current time from a network server and, optionally, setting the system 
time. Rdate uses the Time Protocol. The Time Protocol is generally 
considered obsolete and has been replaced by the Network Time Protocol 
(NTP)."


James Knott wrote:
> 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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