I thought it could be done directly with a time server, and one can! I did some dicking around with sockets and made this up.
this uses the Daytime Protocol (RFC-867)<http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm> function returnNISTime -- returns UTC time in RFC-867 (Daytime) format -- sqb @ the house of cubes put "time-C.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov:13" into pServerURL set the socketTimeoutInterval to 1000 open socket to pServerURL write "" to socket pServerURL read from socket pServerURL for 49 put it into a put the result into b close socket pServerURL delete line 1 of a return a end returnNISTime -------------------------------------- put returnNISTime() returns: 55790 11-08-17 04:57:45 50 0 0 102.3 UTC(NIST) * note that everything one needs is here, including the year. This clock data is read directly from a source that is mission critical and cannot go down. THe only caveat: if you are on a LAN then you must open up port 13 on the router --------- The NIST format <http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm> : is * JJJJJ YR-MO-DA HH:MM:SS TT L H msADV UTC(NIST) OTM* JJJJJ - the Julian Date is : 53746 YR-MO-DA - the Date is : 2006-01-11 HH:MM:SS - the Time in UTC is : 21:28:49 TT - Indication whether USA is on Standard Time (ST) or Daylight Saving Time (DST) : 00 (Standard Time) L - Leap second at the end of the month (0: no, 1: +1, 2: -1) : 0 H - Health of the server (0: healthy, >0: errors) : 0 msADV - time code advanced in milliseconds to compensate network delays : 266.1 UTC(NIST) - the originator of this time code : UTC(NIST) OTM - on-time marker : * hope you all can use this. On 16 August 2011 15:11, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > Thanks Waren and Scott. I will have a look at those. I can extrapolate UTX > time from those zones I suppose, and then do the math for the particular > time zone in the system settings. > > Thanks. > Bob > > > 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
