ken_andrews@ecmail.is.lmsc.lockheed.com ("Ken Andrews") (06/14/91)
Mail*Link(r) SMTP Re: Time on Macs A couple of days ago I sent the following message to the list: > My apologies for a time related question that does not deal with NTP. > > I can keep excellent time on my UNIX and VMS hosts with NTP, and > totally acceptable time on my PCs using the UDP time protocol at boot > time. Is there an implementation of time protocol for Macs? If so, > where can I get it from? > > Any aditional hints much appreciated, as I am very new to Macs. > > Mohamed > The response was rapid and helpful. I got so many "me too" messages that I decided to mail a summary of what I found out. There seems to be only one program, Network Time, written by Pete Resnick, which can be ftp'ed from either sumex-aim.stanford.edu in directory mac-info/cp (NOT cdev, now gone) or from wuarchive.wustl.edu in directory mirrors/info-mac/cp (again, not cdev). There were no real problems (other than my MacIgnorance, local gurus helped). MacTCP must be installed, and the domain name server should be configured into it (else you must use numerical addresses). More tricky is that the timezone information comes from the Map utility. This is described in the long document, but not in the brief Read me file. Thanks to John Palkovic for solving that problem for me. I have two minor problems. There is only room for one timeserver, so if it is down the user is out of luck. Also, there is a possibility of periodic updates, at an interval specified in days. Would be nice to have finer granularity. Normally, I may add, it is run at boot. All in all a fine little piece of software. Mohamed ------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------ Received: by ecmail.is.lmsc.lockheed.com (1.21-/Mail*Link(r) SMTP); 13 Jun 91 07:19:16 U Received: by hummbaby.is.lmsc.lockheed.com (5.57/jlh.103190); Thu, 13 Jun 91 07:10:15 -0700 Received: by hummbaby.is.lmsc.lockheed.com (5.57/jlh.103190); Thu, 13 Jun 91 07:10:04 -0700 Received: by eagle.is.lmsc.lockheed.com (5.57/Ultrix2.4-C) id AA12293; Thu, 13 Jun 91 07:09:30 CDT Received: by trantor.umd.edu (5.65/1.34) id AA12099; Thu, 13 Jun 91 09:49:44 -0400 Received: from farber.harvard.edu by trantor.umd.edu (5.65/1.34) id AA12095; Thu, 13 Jun 91 09:49:38 -0400 Received: by farber.harvard.edu (5.61/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA20100; Thu, 13 Jun 91 09:49:03 -0400 From: ellozy@farber.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy) Message-Id: <9106131349.AA20100@farber.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: Time on Macs To: ntp@trantor.umd.edu Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 9:49:01 EDT Cc: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu X-Organization: Dana Farber Cancer Institute X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]