TIMSERVER(8)

NAME
timserver - standard Internet time server daemon

SYNOPSIS
timserver

DESCRIPTION
timserver listens at a well-known UDP port ("time" or "timserver", 37/udp) for requests to provide the standard Internet machine readable time service. A single datagram containing 4 bytes is sent back to the requester, representing an integer in network byte order containing of the number of seconds since midnight, January 1, 1900. This service is normally provided under 4.3BSD by an internal service in inetd(8C), and is included here only for those systems not having that program. This service is used by an Annex terminal server to sync its internal clock to the correct time.

SEE ALSO
RFC-868 ``Time Protocol'', from the ARPANET Network Information Center.