useless tip of the day – clockdiff

How much time difference does your box and another host on the net have ?

~# clockdiff www.gentoo-wiki.com
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host=www.gentoo-wiki.com rtt=215(0)ms/206ms delta=508000ms/508000ms Thu Jun 28 16:25:31 2007
~# clockdiff www.ntua.gr
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host=achilles.noc.ntua.gr rtt=54(1)ms/49ms delta=-77ms/-76ms Thu Jun 28 16:25:47 2007

clockdiff is inside iputils package (at least on gentoo) and can only by executed as root.

P.S. exams suck bigtime….