Name

taiclock — check a system's clock through TAICLOCK

Synopsis

taiclock {server}

Description

taiclock connects to a TAICLOCK server on server. It communicates using the TAICLOCK protocol. server must be a dotted-decimal IPv4 address, a hexadecimal IPv6 address, a domain name that after name qualification the DNS maps to at least 1 IP address, or the value 0 which is translated to the IPv4 address 127.0.0.1.

taiclock prints to its standard output a 16-byte TAI64NA adjustment that, when added to the local UNIX clock, will produce the TAI clock on server. This is suitable for input to programs such as clockadd(1) and clockview(1).

taiclock limits the adjustment to 2 days.

See also

sntpclock(1)

a similar program that uses the SNTP protocol

taiclockd(1)

a server program that speaks the TAICLOCK protocol

clockspeed(1)

History

taiclock was originally part of Daniel J. Bernstein's clockspeed toolset in 1998.

Author

Original code and documentation by Daniel J. Bernstein. Documentation modernizations by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard.