{"draft":"","doc_id":"RFC0868","title":" Time Protocol ","authors":["J. Postel","K. Harrenstien"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"2","pub_status":"INTERNET STANDARD","status":"INTERNET STANDARD","source":"Legacy","abstract":" This RFC specifies a standard for the ARPA Internet community. Hosts on the ARPA Internet that choose to implement a Time Protocol are expected to adopt and implement this standard. This protocol provides a site-independent, machine readable date and time. The Time service sends back to the originating source the time in seconds since midnight on January first 1900. ","pub_date":"May 1983","keywords":["TIME"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":["STD0026"],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC0868","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc0868"}