taiclock 1 user commands djbwares
taiclock check a system's clock through TAICLOCK
`taiclock` host

## Description

`taiclock` connects to a TAICLOCK server on host. It communicates using the TAICLOCK protocol. host must be a dotted-decimal IPv4 address, or the value `0` which is translated to the IP address 127.0.0.1.

`taiclock` prints to its standard output a 16-byte TAI64NA adjustment that, when added to the local UNIX clock, will produce the TAI clock on host. This is suitable for input to programs such as clockadd 1 and clockview 1.

`taiclock` limits the adjustment to 2 days.

## See also

sntpclock 1

  a similar program that uses the SNTP protocol

taiclockd 1

  a server program that speaks the TAICLOCK protocol

clockspeed 1

## History

`taiclock` was originally part of Daniel J. Bernstein's clockspeed toolset in 1998.

## Author

Original code and documentation by Daniel J. Bernstein. Documentation modernizations by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard.