Fred . wrote: > Why is there no 'time synchronization' feature in the 'date' software > that comes with GNU Coreutils?
Tasks such as that require a long running deamon process to keep the system in step with the outside world. The date command is a simple run and exit command. It is not designed to be a daemon. Also very good alternatives already exist. It wouldn't make sense to duplicate that code in date. > It would be nice to be able to sync the date with remote Internet > time servers. See the ntpd project. It is the standard upon which all others build. If you are running a standard software distribution then it is very likely that ntpd is already included. http://www.ntp.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
