> How can I get the current date and time from either a time server or my > remote Mac? I need to timestamp student submissions and want the time coming > from one source, not their own machines.
You can fetch the time from the U.S. Naval Observatory atomic clock. This assumes an internet connection, though. In my little stack, the time zone is chosen by the user, so I fetch it from a customprop. You'll have calculate the time offset from the last word of the internet date on the user machine -- I'll leave that to you. You need to convert something like "-0400" [EDT] to "1", "-0500" to "2" etc. but in winter the internet date will return "-0500" for eastern *standard* time so you'll have to correct for that. The object is to get the correct line of the HTMLtext of the tycho webpage. Check out the format of the page, it's simple HTMLtext. This will give you a start: function fetchTime put URL "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl"; into t -- gives a list of current times for all US time zones put the timeZone of stack "TimeHelp" into h -- time zone is as follows -- daylight time is given if currently applicable -- 1 = eastern -- 2 = central -- 3 = mountain -- 4 = pacific -- 5 = alaska -- 6 = hawaii put line 6+h of t into tTime delete item 1 of tTime return tTime end fetchTime -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ 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
