timserver(8) — Dell System V Release 4 Issue 2.2



TIMSERVER(8)                 UNIX System V(ANNEX)                  TIMSERVER(8)


NAME
      timserver - standard Internet time server daemon

SYNOPSIS
      /etc/timserver

DESCRIPTION
      timserver listens at a well-known UDP port ("time" or "timserver",
      37/udp) for requests to provide the standard Internet machine readable
      time service.  A single datagram containing 4 bytes is sent back to the
      requester, representing an integer in network byte order containing of
      the number of seconds since midnight, January 1, 1900.  This service is
      normally provided under 4.3BSD by an internal service in inetd(8C), and
      is included here only for those systems not having that program.  This
      service is used by an Annex terminal server to sync its internal clock to
      the correct time.

SEE ALSO
      RFC-868 ``Time Protocol'', from the ARPANET Network Information Center.



































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