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A couple of days ago I sent the following message to the list:

> My apologies for a time related question that does not deal with NTP.
> 
> I can keep excellent time on my UNIX and VMS hosts with NTP, and
> totally acceptable time on my PCs using the UDP time protocol at boot
> time.  Is there an implementation of time protocol for Macs?  If so,
> where can I get it from?
> 
> Any aditional hints much appreciated, as I am very new to Macs.
> 
> Mohamed
> 
The response was rapid and helpful.  I got so many "me too" messages
that I decided to mail a summary of what I found out.

There seems to be only one program, Network Time, written by Pete
Resnick, which can be ftp'ed from either sumex-aim.stanford.edu in
directory mac-info/cp (NOT cdev, now gone) or from wuarchive.wustl.edu
in directory mirrors/info-mac/cp (again, not cdev).

There were no real problems (other than my MacIgnorance, local gurus
helped).  MacTCP must be installed, and the domain name server should
be configured into it (else you must use numerical addresses).  More
tricky is that the timezone information comes from the Map utility.
This is described in the long document, but not in the brief Read me
file.  Thanks to John Palkovic for solving that problem for me.

I have two minor problems.  There is only room for one timeserver, so if
it is down the user is out of luck.  Also, there is a possibility of
periodic updates, at an interval specified in days.  Would be nice to have
finer granularity.  Normally, I may add, it is run at boot.

All in all a fine little piece of software.

Mohamed