Hi Bob, No, just my office Mac a few kilometres away. I was thinking of other ways of not relying on the date and time settings of users who would FTP data to me. If my client app can grab the date and time from my office make, then I have a consistent timestamp that I can rely on.
Gregory On Tue, Aug 16, 2011, at 11:44 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Message: 24 > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:24:30 -0700 > From: Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Subject: Re: Retrieving Date and Time From a Remote Computer > Message-ID: <3fcb9ed9-3960-40b9-b391-9abf6dbac...@twft.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Remote as in a different time zone?? If they are both set to query a time > server, then the remote mac will ALWAYS have the same time as the local one. > If it is always in the same time zone, calculate it. > > Apart from that, I suppose you would have to ssh in which means setting up > firewalls (ick). Or else you would have to set up some kind of server that > could be queried, but still firewall issues. > > Bob _______________________________________________ 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
