Bob, I don't see a "ton of html" at http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl It's just about as simple as it could be presented. It took just a few lines of Livecode to scrape. Determine AM and PM and one could even translate to 24 hour clock. There's about a half second of latency.
I just see this html: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final"//EN> <html> <body> <TITLE>What time is it?</TITLE> <H2> US Naval Observatory Master Clock Time</H2> <H3><PRE> <BR>Aug. 15, 18:52:50 UTC Universal Time <BR>Aug. 15, 02:52:50 PM EDT Eastern Time <BR>Aug. 15, 01:52:50 PM CDT Central Time <BR>Aug. 15, 12:52:50 PM MDT Mountain Time <BR>Aug. 15, 11:52:50 AM PDT Pacific Time <BR>Aug. 15, 10:52:50 AM AKDT Alaska Time <BR>Aug. 15, 08:52:50 AM HAST Hawaii-Aleutian Time </PRE></H3><P><A HREF="http://www.usno.navy.mil";> US Naval Observatory</A> </body></html> On 15 August 2011 10:25, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > This returns a ton of html, from which the date time can be filtered using > "<H2>*", but since it takes about 30 seconds to run, and returns 32 entries, > I am not sure how useful this would for him, if he wanted an exact time > (within a second or two). > > Time servers are NTP:\\ aren't they? Looks like the revURL library does not > support NTP, or not that I can see. Any attempt to use it in a URL returns > empty in it and invalid URL: in the result. > > A quick browse for http based time servers came up dry. > > Bob > > > On Aug 13, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > > Gregory- > > > > Saturday, August 13, 2011, 10:33:29 AM, you wrote: > > > >> Taking another kick at the cat here. I’d like to use something like > > > >> get url (http://[time server address]) > > > > How's this? > > > > http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/anim > > > > -- > > -Mark Wieder > > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
