date@(1)

✨ NAME ✨

date@ — prints the date on a remote host. That's the whole assignment, bestie, and it ate. 💅 This is the date@(1) page from the General Commands Manual, so yeah, you're in the right group chat. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

date@ [ host ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: date@ connects to TCP port 13 — the (Daytime) port, iykyk — on host, and prints any data it receives. ✨

It removes CR (\015) and converts unprintable characters to a visible format, so the output doesn't look like cursed keyboard smash. 😭

If host is not supplied, date@ connects to the local host. Lowkey convenient fr fr. 🫶

Some computers respond to port 13 with a human-readable date. For example, they may be running

tcpserver -RHl0 0 13 date

using tcpserver. No cap, that's the whole example. 💅

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• tcpserver(1)
• tcprules(1)
• tcprulescheck(1)
• argv0(1)
• fixcrio(1)
• recordio(1)
• rblsmtpd(1)
• tcpclient(1)
• who@(1)
• finger@(1)
• http@(1)
• tcpcat(1)
• mconnect(1)
• tcp-environ(5)

and the link, bestie: http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html 🌈

and that's the date@(1) footer, bestie — just the page name, no extra version/date tea. 💅✨