# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' # on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| netdate: netdate (simple network time utility) netdate: netdate: Netdate takes a list of names of Internet hosts as arguments, selects netdate: the one which supplies the best time, and sets the system time netdate: accordingly. The invoker must be the super-user for the time to be netdate: set. Protocol names (either udp or tcp) may be interspersed with the netdate: host names, and determine the protocol which will be used to connect netdate: to the hosts whose names follow, up to the next protocol name or the netdate: end of the arguments. The default protocol is udp. netdate: netdate: These days, "ntpdate" is probably a better choice.