You could put a little one line CGI on your server that just returns the
time and date.
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On September 14, 2018 8:47:51 PM Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Yes, that’s right.
We had a report of a user setting back his OS date to extend his demo. This
caused us much consternation, thus the desire for an independent date source.
Peter
On Sep 14, 2018, at 5:56 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
I think the goal is an independent time (date) source to ensure that the
value is correct. I’m curious about the best solution. Probably would
involve your own server though.
Thanks,
Brian
On Sep 14, 2018, 7:36 PM -0500, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
And… if anyone has a method that doesn’t rely on the user’s local
date/time I’d like to hear that…
Using "the seconds" returns a value that accounts for local GMT offset.
with the value returned being for GMT.
So if you get the seconds and then display them on a machine set to a
different time zone, the time zone will be taken into account when using
the convert command to display them in any human-readable format.
FWIW "the internet date" is similarly useful for converting to other
formats in ways that take local time zone into account.
AFAIK those are the only two built-in date formats that account for GMT
offset, but I've used both for network services where users trade data
across many time zones and they work quite well.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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