Wouldn't it be better to get time data from a place that's mission-critical consistent, like the NAVY and WWV? Then you wouldn't have to maintain it or deal with outages.
On 16 August 2011 09:37, Gregory Lypny <gregory.ly...@videotron.ca> wrote: > 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-request@lists.runrev.comwrote: > > > 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 > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ 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
