rdate sets the local date and time from the hostname given as an argument. You must have the authorization solaris.system.date on the local system. Typically, rdate is used in a startup script.

The inetd daemon responds to rdate requests. To enable inetd response, the lines invoking the time command in inetd.conf must not be commented out.

The rdate command is IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P).

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

inetd(1M), inetd.conf(4), attributes(5), ip6(7P)