Hi there,
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Randy Harmon wrote:
> Does anybody have experience detecting such a condition, perhaps through one
> of the client headers? I haven't had a chance to dump them - many hats.
No idea - ditto.
> In any case, I could use some Javascript to package up the machine's
> current time and send it back to the server, for instance at the
> same point where I check whether a cookie was accepted. That'd
> indicate their "Javscript-OK"-ness too. I think I'm willing to
> assume that someone clueful enough to turn off Javascript is clueful
> enough to have the correct time.
You might want to look at the excellent ntpd documentation which talks
about things like network delays. I think your Javascript idea is as
good a solution as you're going to get until the Web Comes Of Age.
Don't know what you're going to do when I visit with Lynx though...
Well, at least my clock _will_ be right, I run a level 3 timeserver.
Somebody's probably going to tell us we've strayed off topic now...
73
Ged.
