Hi All,
Well, I've had a bit of luck in my quest for a a WATTCP
program which will set the time on a PC. Actually, I'm a
bit surprised that nobody here has had any suggestions
since this is at the core of what this list is about. <g>
The only two who responded were Carol Moon (who suggested
the CBS TV weekday morning show) and Chester in Louisiana
who said:
> found this url works for time standard
> http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/javaclck.htm
> from one of the list lurkers who enjoy reading all of you.
> Chester
> Iowa Louisiana USA
> Heart of Cajun Country
Thanks Chester. Yep, I've checked out NIST already and
they are indeed a good source of the time. The problem is
the programs they offer to take advantage of that on the
internet are Windows based.
I did find an excellent clock though. It comes in as
just straight ASCII and, to me, looks REALLY good ...
waaayyy better than any pictorial representation which
I've run across! If anybody else is interested, just go
to:
http://132.163.135.130:14
I _have_ been doing my homework though! It seems that
there is a collection of WATTCP apps at:
ftp://sunee.uwaterloo.ca:21/pub/wattcp/disappearing/
Grab "apps.zip" if you are interested. (You can also reach
that file from www.tropinet.com/ppp.html which is a good
place for DOS internet apps.) What a great little
collection. It includes PING, FINGER, TCPINFO, and a whole
bunch of others such as, DAYTIME, and NTIME.
The latter is supposed to do what I've been looking for.
That is, grab the time off a network timeserver and set my
clock. Not too tall an order, I would think. The problem
is, I can't get it to work with any of the time servers
listed at NIST, nor the two examples in the readme. Does
anybody here want to give it a try and help me get it
going?
Cheers,
Ole Juul
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