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From: xjeldc@tts.lth.se (Jan Engvald)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Time servers
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Date: 29 Dec 90 15:39:14 GMT
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In article <27790c89@omega.UUCP> Andrew Hardie <omega!ash@relay.EU.net> writes:
>I know that there are ways of making UNIX boxes connected to a TCP/IP
>network set their clocks from a single point, but does anyone know a way
>for DOS boxes to set their time from a UNIX host over TCP/IP. DOS boxes
>will be PC/TCP and UNIX box will be SCO UNIX.
>Suggestions gratefully received before I attempt a solution myself.
>Thanks
>Andrew
>
>-- 
>Andrew Hardie
>London, England
>ash@omega.uucp
>ukc!cctal!omega!ash

For MSDOS machines I suggest you try PDCLKSET, available by anonymous
FTP from Pollux.lu.se:/pub/network/pdclkset/pdclk088.zip . It requires
a packet driver, is very small (7 kbyte) and fast (can be included in 
AUTOEXEC.BAT without noticeble delay). It knows a lot about daylight
saving algorithms all over the world, but in the case of UK the
implemented algorithm may not be true every coming year, lacking an
officially defined dls rule.

It requires an UDP/IP Time server, available on most Unix hosts.

                                             
Jan Engvald, Lund University Computing Center
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