unix-wizards-request@brl-tgr (Mike Muuss) (04/18/85)
----- Forwarded message # 1: Date: 28 Mar 1985 01:18 MST (Thu) Message-ID: <WANCHO.12098560585.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARPA> From: "Frank J. Wancho" <WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA> To: INFO-UNIX-REQUEST@brl.ARPA cc: WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA Subject: "timchk" We have a program on our TOPS-20 system that goes quite a bit further than "date -n". You can give it a list of sites in a file - I picked several of the fuzzballs because they are known to keep in sync with WWV and ALL of them are polled, not just the one on the top of the list. The average difference is computed and it offers to update your system clock with that difference. I also have a version I run at startup that doesn't ask. The question is: has anyone implemented a similar program for Unix? --Frank -------------------- Here is the display: Site Greenwich Mean Time -> Local Time Zone Difference Delay SIMTEL20.ARPA 28-Mar-85 08:15:27 -> 28-Mar-85 01:15:27-MST DCN1 28-Mar-85 08:15:32 -> + :01 +4 DCN6 28-Mar-85 08:15:33 -> + :02 +4 DCN7 28-Mar-85 08:15:34 -> + :02 +5 DCN2 timed out. DCN3 timed out. DCN4 timed out. DCN5 timed out. DCN8 timed out. Average difference + :01 Average clock time 28-Mar-85 01:15:28-MST Time spent surveying = 12.902 seconds. Set system time to average? (Y or N) :y OK, Setting time to 28-Mar-85 01:15:42 ----- End of forwarded messages