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rsdate

rsdate connects to an ntp server, printing the returned time and/or sets the system clock.

Example:

$ rsdate pool.ntp.org
[2021-10-11T05:02:32Z INFO  rsdate] [pool.ntp.org]  Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:02:32 +1000

Download

Pre-compiled binaries are available for a number of platforms.

Example to download and extract a binary:

curl https://releases.wezm.net/rsdate/0.4.0/rsdate-0.4.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz | tar zxf -

Usage

``` USAGE: rsdate [OPTIONS]

ARGS: The ntp server to contact.

OPTIONS: -h, --help Prints help information

-p, --print
        Print the time returned by the server.

-r, --retry NUMBER
        If retrieving the time fails retry NUMBER times. Retries are made
        at 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. seconds.  A value of 0 disables retry
        (default). A negative value retries forever.

-s, --set
        Set the system time to the returned time.

-t, --timeout TIMEOUT
        Sets response timeout in seconds. [default: 10]

-l, --syslog
        Print messages to syslog.

-V, --version
        Prints version information

```

Build from Source

Minimum Supported Rust Version: 1.53.0

rsdate is implemented in Rust. See the Rust website for instructions on installing the toolchain.

From Git Checkout or Release Tarball

Build the binary with cargo build --release --locked. The binary will be in target/release/rsdate.

From crates.io

cargo install rsdate

Credits

This tool is inspired by rdate.

Licence

This project is dual licenced under either of:

Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT)

at your option.

🦀📅 rsdate