The Quiet Joy of Simplicity (RFC 868)
I recently discovered the Time protocol, as defined by RFC 868. This delightfully simple RFC, if implemented, returns an unsigned 32-bit integer as bytes, then disconnects. That integer represents the number of seconds since 1900-01-01 00:00:00+00:00, the epoch stated in the RFC. That’s it. That’s the entire thing. NIST maintains this delightfully Web 1.0 page where they state that they service Time requests on port 37 (though they’d prefer you to use NTP)....