HTTP Time Protocol

Re: Nice idea!

> But using this snippet works fine, too

> ;-)

>

> date -s "`lynx -dump -head

> www.kernel.org |grep 'Date:'|awk

> -F': ' '{print $2}'`"

HTP (atleast the C version) does basic statistical analysis to use multiple sources to create a more accurate time.

Re: Nice idea!

> I suppose if you ran that every minute
> you may not have any jumps, but the
> feature of smooth adjustment is good for
> less frequent polling.

The C version of htpd is doing smooth adjustments (since version 0.3.4) in stead of time steps, simular to ntpd.

Re: Nice idea!

> But using this snippet works fine, too

> ;-)

>

> date -s "`lynx -dump -head

> www.kernel.org |grep 'Date:'|awk

> -F': ' '{print $2}'`"

I suppose if you ran that every minute you may not have any jumps, but the feature of smooth adjustment is good for less frequent polling.

Although, wouldn't an HTTP extension to the rdate code be effective?

Re: Nice idea!
date -s "`lynx -dump -head www.kernel.org|awk -F': ' '/Date: / {print $2}'`"
to make it even shorter

Re: Nice idea!
Agreed, but you don't do boundary checking and your version is less friendly for non-programmers.

You are more than welcome to write a slick version in C.

It's the idea that counts :)