Hal, "telnet ntp.alaska.edu daytime". Other busy NIST servers don't do TCP/TIME anymore, but others might.
Dave DaveHal Murray wrote: >>I would like to connect to any server to receive a string where it is >>written the istant time (possibly hh.mm.ss.xxx ). I found several sites >>where I may read hh.mm.ss then downloading the page and reading it I could >>get the string hh.mm.ss but > > > I don't know of any servers that do that. > > In the early Arpanet days, there was a RFC describing a time > service available via UDP and TCP. It returned the date and time > as a string. Seconds were good enough back then. > > You can probably find code that does that and patch it to > return what you want. That assumes you have a server you > can run it on. > > If you are happy with binary results (rather than a string) > you could use NTP. (Don't forget to consider time zones.) > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
