it's UDP. One could use sockets in Livecode. Probably pretty easy to make a Time Server LIb
here's the poop from the time people<http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm> http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm On 15 August 2011 11:57, stephen barncard <stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com>wrote: > 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> > > -- 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
