On Nov 3, 2009, at 09:47, Bob Cronin wrote:
All well and good, but useless if the GMT time is wrong (which it
is on most
of our VM systems, at least as compared to GMT returned from one of
the many
reliable NTP servers out there). All I want to be able to do is to
talk to
one of those servers and get an answer as to what time it thinks it
is. If
it is a few seconds off because of latency I don't care. The system
clock I
am dealing with are as much as 5 *minutes* off!
Can you get to:
http://india.colorado.edu:13/
Many browsers block this, but you should be able to do it with a
TCPCLIENT stage. (I'm inclined to invoke Godwin's Law.)
More at:
http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm
http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
-- gil
