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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: Time servers
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Date: 28 Dec 90 04:08:28 GMT
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PC/TCP's SETCLOCK.EXE will query timeservers over the net (something
makes me think the RFC was 768 - a simple UDP query/response).  The
MIT-CMU-Harvard PCIP distribution has the ancestral SETCLOCK.  As far as
I know, both programs require unaesthetic tinkering to deal with all the
world's daylight savings algorithms...

There is a p-d time server for 4bsd Unix, which we distribute on our
PC-800 freeware collection diskette.  I don't know how much effort would
be required to port it to streams, but the original program is only
about 200 lines of C.  

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