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The Daytime Protocol is a service in the Internet Protocol Suite, defined in 1983 in RFC 867 by Jon Postel. It is intended for testing and measurement purposes in computer networks.
A host may connect to a server that supports the Daytime Protocol on either Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port 13. The server returns an ASCII character string of the current date and time in an unspecified format.