[ntp:questions] A question

Greg Dowd GDowd at symmetricom.com
Wed Apr 30 21:58:57 UTC 2008


The original party was trying to find something with a resolution
greater than 1 s but in ASCII. 

  
Greg Dowd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: questions-bounces+gdowd=symmetricom.com at lists.ntp.org 
> [mailto:questions-bounces+gdowd=symmetricom.com at lists.ntp.org]
>  On Behalf Of David L. Mills
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:35 PM
> To: questions at lists.ntp.org
> Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] A question
> 
> Hal,
> 
> "telnet ntp.alaska.edu daytime". Other busy NIST servers 
> don't do TCP/TIME anymore, but others might.
> 
> Dave
> 
> DaveHal Murray wrote:
> >>I would like to connect to any server to receive a string 
> where it is 
> >>written the istant time (possibly hh.mm.ss.xxx ). I found several 
> >>sites where I may read hh.mm.ss then downloading the page 
> and reading 
> >>it I could get the string hh.mm.ss but
> > 
> > 
> > I don't know of any servers that do that.
> > 
> > In the early Arpanet days, there was a RFC describing a 
> time service 
> > available via UDP and TCP.  It returned the date and time 
> as a string.  
> > Seconds were good enough back then.
> > 
> > You can probably find code that does that and patch it to 
> return what 
> > you want.  That assumes you have a server you can run it on.
> > 
> > If you are happy with binary results (rather than a string) 
> you could 
> > use NTP.  (Don't forget to consider time zones.)
> > 
> 
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