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January 20, 2003

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Marcus asks for the time - and gets it.

For the terminally curious, rdate is a handy TCP/IP command you can use to synchronize a computer's time with a time server. NTP is a more fault-tolerant protocol that basically lets you do the same thing. It's good to know about this stuff if, like us, your computer clocks keep horrible time.