On Dec 21, 2007 3:17 AM, Frank Wales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/21/2007 01:37 AM, Christopher Woods wrote: > > Static content can be cached and distributed to > > local nodes by ISPs and the BBC itself, but realtime NTP queries will really > > kill a box and suck up a ton of bandwidth. > > But NTP would be a mad way to get a clock on a web page roughly right.
I refer the honourable gentleman to http://james.cridland.net/code/clock.html - which should be accurate within a second or so. -- http://james.cridland.net | http://www.mediauk.com Media UK is a Not At All Bad Ltd production. http://notatallbad.ltd.uk/legal_info - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
