On 1999-09-08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 23:50:00 -0700
>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
>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
Hi Folks -
Did you all know that NETTAMER will automatically set your PC's
time? Immediately after logging on to your ISP, NETTAMER will
access the time server at "bitsy.mit.edu", retrieve a time signal
and set your PC's time. If you want your PC's time to reflect
your own local time, all you have to do is specify in your setup
the number of hours offset from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), aka
Universal Coordinated Time (UCT).
An alternative, but very complicated and technical method of
setting your PC's time, would be to provide an analog input
to a serial port from an international time signal received
by a short-wave radio. When your serial port receives the
signal, your computer's time will be set by means of user
intervention with a special program that you would write for
this purpose. Such programs probably might have already been
written and might be available for download from some source.
Theoretically, a computer whose time is set by such an accurate
method, would be very useful for programs used for navigation
and geodetic surveys. I suppose that someone probably has
already invented the type of wheel I am imagining. Anyway, to
think of such things is beyond the scope of my job description.
If I were still working, I could surely get into a lot of
trouble for that!
Samuel W. Heywood, Cartographic Technician,
US Geological Survey (Retired)
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