Re: Time code!
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texte = If your running OSX you can just drop into the [shell] to do this ..[!] The below line will query a time server for current time It will not update the time and will create an error on OSX as no 'sudo' command was used .. Never the less - the time is returned [/!][shell]ntpdate -u -d[/shell]The do some fancy [middle]ing around the response .. Save heaps of timelearning the protocol ntp speaks ..Alain> 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: private> > It 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-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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If your running OSX you can just drop into the [shell] to do this ..[!] The below line will query a time server for current time It will not update the time and will create an error on OSX as no 'sudo' command was used .. Never the less - the time is returned [/!][shell]ntpdate -u -d[/shell]The do some fancy [middle]ing around the response .. Save heaps of timelearning the protocol ntp speaks ..Alain> 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: private> > It 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-------------------------------------------------------------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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