Re: [NTLK] NetTime

From: Jesse Garnier (jgarnier_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 09:30:35 EDT


richard_at_cyberphotographer.com wrote not long ago (5/16/02 3:38 AM):

> Does anybody use NetTime to synchronise with time.euro.apple.com? I
> can't get it to work. I recall that it used to.

Apple's time servers must have stopped serving RFC-868 in lieu of RFC-1305.
Here's a copy of a message I sent to Newtontalk a few weeks ago:

> I had been wondering why NetTime wasn't syncing my Newton's clock, using
> either the default server or any of Apple's time servers. Then I discovered
> that many time servers have stopped supporting the RFC-868 Time Protocol used
> by NetTime in lieu of the more popular RFC-1305 Network Time Protocol.
>
> Through a bit of digging I found out that NIST servers still support the 868
> protocol. I use time-a.nist.gov, but a whole list is available at:
>
> http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/time-servers.html
>
> Just thought I'd drop the note for anyone for whom NetTime isn't working.

Cheers--
 
--Jesse

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