[KLUG Members] clock synch

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

I've been following the thread on ntp and rdate and
started
experimenting with rdate and several time servers.

The first one "ns.arc.nasa.gov", returned the time,but
I noticed it was inconsistent with others I tried.

Here is a short shell script that retrieved the times
in sequence.  The Nasa site shows a time before the
others even though it was run first. 

Maybe that's why the CONTOUR spacecraft is orbiting
the Sun.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/contour_update_020821.html


# 
echo "ns.arc.nasa.gov" ; rdate -p ns.arc.nasa.gov
echo "time-a.nist.gov" ; rdate -p time-a.nist.gov
echo "time-b.nist.gov" ; rdate -p time-b.nist.gov


# Results
ns.arc.nasa.gov
Sat Aug 24 00:02:35 GMT 2002
time-a.nist.gov
Sat Aug 24 00:01:22 GMT 2002
time-b.nist.gov
Sat Aug 24 00:01:22 GMT 2002

Jacob


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