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There are tons of matches, and from a cursory inspection you can see that the standard name for this service is "NTP," the Network Time Protocol. Now let's revisit the search, because we want information on NTP and the Macintosh. This time we search for NTP and Mac? -t0 (the question mark is so that we can match Mac and Macintosh) and see one match, net_machine.h, which isn't what we want. Hmmm. Let's skip the "NTP" stuff and try a variant of the original query: network and time and mac? -t0. Ah ha! This yields the following:
1. Network Time for Mac - Info required. 2. Network Time for Mac - Info required. 3. SUMMARY - Network Time for Mac. 4. SUMMARY - Network Time for Mac.The third entry is what we're looking for. I type 3, press Return, and see the following:
This is from the document '/lists-k-o/mac-supporters/archives/09-1993'. From: Vlastimil Malinek <v.malinek@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 14:37:54 BST To: mac-supporters@mailbase.ac.uk Subject: SUMMARY - Network Time for Mac I asked: > I run NTP (Network Time Protocol) at this site. ........ > Does anyone know of an application (or anything else) that will allow > the mac's clock to be set at boot time from a datehost? A host of helpful replies arrived. Unfortunately I wasn't able to try them out immediately as the hard disks on my mac decided to go down.... However, here is summary of the replies: 1) 'VersaTerm Time Client' which is shipped by Synergy Software with VersaTerm PRO and VersaTerm. I have VersaTerm Pro in-house but only a couple of copies which are used by other people so I didn't test this one. However, it is being used by some of the respondees. 2) 'Tardis' This is part of the CAP package. It sits in the 'Chooser' and will connect to a CAP 'Timelord' server. Or, it will connect to another mac acting as 'Timelord' (better than nothing I suppose). 3) Network Time. sumex: /info-mac/Communication/Network/network-time-20.hqx Excellent! This is the business. Allows you to make an Extension once you've configured which you can punt out to your machines. Will run at boot time or when a TCP/IP connection is made or both. Very configurable. You can also make your own timezones (you'll need one for the UK because of Daylight Savings). Takes IP addresses as well as names and has a list of timeservers. Only drawback. Manual comes in MacWrite Pro format and the postscript comes set for US letter. As the whole thing is done as odd/even pages it's very difficult to get at if you don't have MacWrite Pro. However, one of my colleagues wrote me a nice unix script that will convert the postscript to A4 if anyone wants it. Thanks again to everyone for the very helpful replies. Vlastimil Malinek MRC Applied Psychology Unit 15 Chaucer Road Cambridge CB2 2EF %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Press <RETURN> to continue, <m> to mail, <D> to download, <s> to save, or <p> to print: