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| author |   deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2015-02-10 13:10:27 +0000 |
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| committer | deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2015-02-10 13:10:27 +0000 |
| commit | 6de44abe135fff43ce965f6cab69127c4a736701 (patch) | |
| tree | eee05e464424874d3b77ad1934debf784db06b49 /usr.sbin/rdate | |
| parent | Sanity check TZ environment variable; backport from sudo 1.8.12 (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-openbsd-6de44abe135fff43ce965f6cab69127c4a736701.tar.xz wireguard-openbsd-6de44abe135fff43ce965f6cab69127c4a736701.zip | |
Document that RFC 5905 (ie. NTP protocol) has a limit which will be
hit before Y2038.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/rdate')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 b/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 index bf990d920a8..3dfe39aaeee 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/rdate/rdate.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: rdate.8,v 1.36 2013/04/19 19:14:46 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: rdate.8,v 1.37 2015/02/10 13:10:27 deraadt Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: rdate.8,v 1.4 1996/04/08 20:55:17 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1994 Christos Zoulas @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 19 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 10 2015 $ .Dt RDATE 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ which does not correctly account for leap seconds. .It Fl n Use SNTP (RFC 5905) instead of the RFC 868 time protocol. This is the default. +This protocol counts 32 bits of seconds from January 1, 1900 +and will rollover in March 2036. .It Fl o Use an RFC 868 TCP protocol server instead of SNTP. This protocol is obsolete as it is not capable of representing |