RDATE

Section: Maintenance Commands (8C)
Updated: 22 July 1993
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NAME

rdate - set system date from a remote host

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/rdate hostname

DESCRIPTION

rdate sets the local date and time from the hostname given as the argument. You must be super-user on the local system. On typical UNIX systems, rdate is often inserted as part of the /etc/rc.local startup script. NEXTSTEP systems instead typically use the network time synchronization daemon ntpd(8).

FILES

/etc/rc.local startup script