Hi Bob,

No, just my office Mac a few kilometres away.  I was thinking of other ways of 
not relying on the date and time settings of users who would FTP data to me.  
If my client app can grab the date and time from my office make, then I have a 
consistent timestamp that I can rely on.


Gregory



On Tue, Aug 16, 2011, at 11:44 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Message: 24
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:24:30 -0700
> From: Bob Sneidar <[email protected]>
> To: How to use LiveCode <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Retrieving Date and Time From a Remote Computer
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> Remote as in a different time zone?? If they are both set to query a time 
> server, then the remote mac will ALWAYS have the same time as the local one. 
> If it is always in the same time zone, calculate it. 
> 
> Apart from that, I suppose you would have to ssh in which means setting up 
> firewalls (ick). Or else you would have to set up some kind of server that 
> could be queried, but still firewall issues. 
> 
> Bob

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