Install Htpdate On A Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Raspbian And MacOS

Install Htpdate On A Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Raspbian And MacOS

htpdate

HTTP based time synchronization tool

Maintainer: Joao Eriberto Mota Filho



Section: net

Install htpdate

  • Debian apt-get install htpdate Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install htpdate Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install htpdate Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install htpdate Click to copy
  • macOS brew install htpdate Click to copy

htpdate

HTTP based time synchronization tool

The HTTP Time Protocol (HTP) is used to synchronize a computer's time with web servers as reference time source. This program can be used instead ntpdate or similar, in networks that has a firewall blocking the NTP port. Htpdate will synchronize the computer time to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), using the timestamps from HTTP headers found in web servers response (the HEAD method will be used to get the information). Htpdate works through proxy servers. Accuracy of htpdate will be usually within 0.5 seconds (better with multiple servers).

To install the latest version of htpdate in your favorite operating system just copy the htpdate installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of htpdate 2023 package in your OS.