To get time on a remote UNIX machine within the same domain,
you can use the command:
% telnet 13
Trying ...
Connected to
Escape character is '^]'.
Fri Aug 27 19:20:27 1999
Connection closed by foreign host.
You can create a handy alias for the following command
to get the remote time:
telnet 13 | grep :
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