netdate(1Mtcp)

netdate -- notify time server that date has changed

Synopsis

netdate

Description

The netdate command notifies timed(1Mtcp) that the system date has changed. If the local time server is a master, it will notify all of the slaves that the time has changed. If it is a slave, it will request that the master update the time.

Usage

netdate should be run whenever a privileged user sets the date with date(1). A shell script such as the following could be used to do both automatically.

   :
   #
   # mv /bin/date /bin/s5date
   # install as /bin/date
   #
   PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
   s5date $*
   netdate

References

adjtime(2), date(1), gettimeofday(2), icmp(7tcp), timed(1Mtcp), timedc(1Mtcp)