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Get the time from NIST.GOV

Terminal - Get the time from NIST.GOV
cat </dev/tcp/time.nist.gov/13
2009-12-03 21:40:14
User: drewk
Functions: cat
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Get the time from NIST.GOV

The format is JJJJJ YR-MO-DA HH:MM:SS TT L DUT1 msADV UTC(NIST) OTM

and is explained more fully here: http://tf.nist.gov/service/acts.htm

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I don't get it to work with bash. What are the prerequisites ?

Comment by CodSpirit 181 weeks ago

CodSpirit: On some systems, such as Debian and Debian offshoots, net redirections aren't enabled in Bash. You can do the same thing with curl, wget, or nc, though:

curl -s time.nist.gov:13 nc time.nist.gov 13 wget -q -O- time.nist.gov:13
Comment by eightmillion 181 weeks ago

You have to enable net-redirections when compiling bash to do it.

That doesn't work on debian derivated distros by default...

Comment by sputnick 181 weeks ago

Works for me on Ubuntu and OS X. I do not have Debian...

Comment by drewk 180 weeks and 6 days ago

Indeed it is not enabled on Ubuntu 9.04

Thanks eightmillion for alternatives

Comment by CodSpirit 180 weeks and 6 days ago

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