Re: Time code!
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 43561
interpreted = N
texte = Bob Minor wrote: > Anybody written a code snippet to grab the time from a time server? > > Sorry for the dual post! > This is not trivial, or IMHO necessary. The OS should be responsible for getting the time correct, not an application.That being said, if the remote time server is running a web server, you can use something like this to get a date string from it: [TCPConnect host=isd.smithmicro.com&port=80] [TCPSend]HEAD / HTTP/1.0[UnURL]%0D%0A%0D%0A[/UnURL][/TCPSend] [/TCPConnect]and you will get the following HTTP headers back: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:59:00 GMT Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Length: 1270 Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQGQQGJDC=DFEDPNDDJGBEIKFNDAEPBAEL; path=/ Cache-control: privateIt is left as an exercise for the reader to figure out how to get the Date: header out and interpret it as a time in the local timezone.But seriously, run xntpd or better yet clockspeed on your local server. It is the O/S that should be setting the time, not a usermode application.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Bob Minor wrote: > Anybody written a code snippet to grab the time from a time server? > > Sorry for the dual post! > This is not trivial, or IMHO necessary. The OS should be responsible for getting the time correct, not an application.That being said, if the remote time server is running a web server, you can use something like this to get a date string from it: [TCPConnect host=isd.smithmicro.com&port=80] [tcpsend]HEAD / HTTP/1.0[unurl]%0D%0A%0D%0A[/UnURL][/TCPSend] [/TCPConnect]and you will get the following HTTP headers back: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:59:00 GMT Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Length: 1270 Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQGQQGJDC=DFEDPNDDJGBEIKFNDAEPBAEL; path=/ Cache-control: privateIt is left as an exercise for the reader to figure out how to get the Date: header out and interpret it as a time in the local timezone.But seriously, run xntpd or better yet clockspeed on your local server. It is the O/S that should be setting the time, not a usermode application.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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