Internet screwed up?

[Michael Hipp]

Shawn Tayler wrote:
> This brings up a question.  I have been struggling with netdate.  It has a
> tendency to just hang waiting for a response from some time servers, never
> seeming to time out.  I also have heard it is deprecated.  Is there a
> viable, commandline alternative?  NTPD is a bugger to get setup, at least
> the times I have tried I have given up...

'rdate' is a no-hassle commandline time setter.

I generally set my desktop boxes to get their time from one of my 
servers using either rdate or ntpd and then set the server to keep time 
from the Internet using ntpd.

Michael