[time-nuts] help

[Martin Burnicki]

Am 3. Mai 2016 18:06:49 MESZ, schrieb Hendrik Dietrich <don_hendi at gmx.de>:
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>Picking up the time from a DAYTIME Server is easier to implement than 
>NTP, these respond just with a string containing date and time.

If you don't want to run NTP then eventually you sould use the "time" protocol rather than daytime . 

"time" returns UTC,  but IIRC then daytime can even return some local time,  and the string format may depend on / vary wit the server you are contacting. It's more for human interaction. 

Martin