daytime/udp

Description

daytime/udp provides human readeable local time on demand.

Protocol

Upon receipt of a packet, the server returns a packet in ASCII character string containing the date in readeable form, i.e. Mon Apr 17 22:51:21 EDT 1995

Notes

Implementation

On unix boxes, this tends to be implemented via inetd

RFCs

RFC-867

Reference Person

Jon Postel postel@isi.edu