msntpdate - a minimal Simple Network Time Protocol client for Minix
Stian Sletner <stian@sletner.com> 2002-03-30

Msntpdate queries a given Network Time Protocol (NTP) server for the
current time.  It blindly trusts the server's time, ignoring things
like network latency, and is only precise to a whole second.  It is
therefore far less accurate than the real ntpdate client that comes
with the NTP package, but should be enough to get a reasonably accurate
time, unless your connectivity to the NTP server is lagged by >1s.

You will need root privileges for msntpdate to successfully set the
system time.

Installation: 

  cd /usr/local/src
  zcat < msntpda.tar.Z | tar xvfp -
  cd msntpdate
(At this point you might want to read the text files.  Also check the
Makefile for possible edits needed for your system)
  make
  make install

The makewhatis command may fail if you have low mem, in which case
you'll have to run it manually from the console.  For a list of public
stratum 2 NTP servers, see
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2.htm.

Download from: 
http://{minix1.hampshire.edu | minix1.bio.umass.edu}/pub/contrib/msntpda.tar.Z

Newer versions of msntpdate may be available at
ftp://ftp.sletner.com/pub/minix/msntpda.tar.Z

(rev. 2002-12-14)