Would this do? It does the Daytime Protocol (RFC 867). Rumor is that the service would be stopped, so you might be better off just doing a 'wget' for some known time source (that does not clobber it with fancy graphics making it hard to parse).
pipe tcpclient 192.43.244.18 13 linger 1 | deblock linend 0a | xlate a2e | cons 53108 04-04-13 10:08:46 50 0 0 432.8 UTC(NIST) * NTP (RFC 5905) is a bit harder because you really wold have to sit down and listen for a while to get it right. It's Friday soon ;-) On 24 April 2014 15:40, Bob Cronin <bob.cro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone have any pipes code that can do this? > -- > bc >