Thanks Stephen, I too came across this one today. Looks pretty easy to parse.
Gregory On Mon, Aug 15, 2011, at 3:45 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Message: 14 > Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:57:24 -0700 > From: stephen barncard <stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Subject: Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the > Internet > Message-ID: > <CAFmQfH+BdsdJb3Dmzz3TbmTm=ete4mdrxjyykx3w0xug0bx...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Bob, I don't see a "ton of html" at > http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl > It's just about as simple as it could be presented. It took just a few lines > of Livecode to scrape. Determine AM and PM and one could even translate to > 24 hour clock. There's about a half second of latency. > > I just see this html: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final"//EN> > <html> > <body> > <TITLE>What time is it?</TITLE> > <H2> US Naval Observatory Master Clock Time</H2> <H3><PRE> > <BR>Aug. 15, 18:52:50 UTC Universal Time > <BR>Aug. 15, 02:52:50 PM EDT Eastern Time > <BR>Aug. 15, 01:52:50 PM CDT Central Time > <BR>Aug. 15, 12:52:50 PM MDT Mountain Time > <BR>Aug. 15, 11:52:50 AM PDT Pacific Time > <BR>Aug. 15, 10:52:50 AM AKDT Alaska Time > <BR>Aug. 15, 08:52:50 AM HAST Hawaii-Aleutian Time > </PRE></H3><P><A HREF="http://www.usno.navy.mil";> US Naval Observatory</A> > > </body></html> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
