On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 01:19:50 -0700
Rick Moen via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> > Have a look at "rdate":
>
> I'm glad it works for you, but no.
>
> RFC 868 Time Protocol was obsoleted when NTP became ubiquotous in the
> 1980s. IMO, there's no point in keeping rdate(8) around when there
> are multiple good NTP implementations available.

Yes and no:

-n  Use SNTP (old RFC 2030, currently RFC 5905) instead of  the  RFC
    868 time protocol.

# rdate -n ntp.xs4all.nl
Fri Jun 12 12:07:04 CEST 2020

:-)

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