Date/Time

This page has grown like Topsey. There is a lot of good stuff, but it's not very well organized.

Online Time:
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Network Time Protocol project
Keeping Time With NTP Scanned from Unix Review, March 1998
Keeping Time With Your Network
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3
From Network Computing of 7/10/2003
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ Time Service Department U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/
RFC 1305 Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Obsoletes RFC-1119, RFC-1059, RFC-958
http://www.truetime.com/ Network timekeeping equipment
http://www.agilent.com/ Search on "time standard"
Time and Frequency Services Maintained by Prof David L Mills of the Univ of Delaware.
http://www.time.gov/ Nice time and day/night display. Interesting reading.

NTP

It appears that some systems distributed NTPv2 and NTPv3 as xntpd. NTP4 should be used.
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RFC 1305 The underlying design.
Notes on Xntpd Configuration David L. Mills' excellent notes. local copy
NTP Public Support Project
Public time servers
Sites I use for time checks:

usno.pa-x.dec.com
montpelier.caltech.edu
tick.ucla.edu
usno.pa-x.dec.com
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Atomix Clocks Now a division of Chaney Instrument Co.  Clocks and watches that are set to standards several times a day.
Date/Calendar:
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Articles by Peter Meyer Good information and a little code.
Calendar Edward M. Reingold's Calendar Book, Papers, and Code
Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com NTP series of articles:
Original: Local Copy
What is NTP? 2004-10-07 local
NTP Commands 2004-10-14 local
Configuring NTP 2004-10-28 (Good bibliography) local
Calendar FAQ By Claus Tondering of Denmark. Local Copy.
Calendar Studies Calendar Studies by Peter Meyer
Date Arithmetic part1, part2, part3 These articles were originally in Sun World which was picked up by ItWorld.  Unfortunately the URLs changed and there is no useful search function available.  I hacked for quite a while to find them.  Just to be safe, here are local copies: part1, part2, part3. There was a part 4 which I have not been able to re-locate.
Determining the Date of Easter IPS Radio & Space Services (Australia)
Date of Easter U.S. Naval Observatory
Edward M. Reingold's Calendar Book, Papers, and Code Publication overviews and some code.
Sun's Blueprints on NTP
Blueprints Page
Original: Local Copy
Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks - Part I: Introduction to NTP local
Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks - Part II: Basic NTP Administration and Architecture local
Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks - Part III: NTP Monitoring and Troubleshooting local

Sandra Henry-Stocker

This lady writes great stuff for: www.itworld.com.
Unix Insider
Unix and time zones, part 1 (Time as we know it) Published by www.itworld.com Local copy
Unix and time zones, part 2 (Time as we compute it) Local copy
Is this the Last Day of the Month? Local copy
Last workday of the month Local copy
Last workday of the month: A retake Local copy
More about dates Local copy
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