Your remark is off the thread. I forgot. What is the conclusion? Was the letter referring to the site we were 'screen scraping' to get the time ? And don't the binary NTP solutions defined by the Time People <http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html>and suggested by Andre and myself fall into the category of viable ways to get accurate internet time in the future?
On 29 August 2011 08:48, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > That, as they say, is that. > > Bob > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Richard Schmidt <rich.schm...@usno.navy.mil> > > Date: August 29, 2011 7:59:33 AM PDT > > To: b...@twft.com > > Subject: Web time > > > > Thank you for your note regarding our web time on server > tycho.usno.navy.mil. You should be aware that there is a requirement to > replace this web server with a Navy portal server, and that the application > that you discuss may soon disappear entirely. USNO is not funded to maintain > this application. In addition > > it should be noted that the ONLY means of Internet time synchronization > that > > we will continue to support is the standard NTP protocol. You are urged > to > > reconsider your lack of compliance with NTP if you wish to use USNO for a > > time standard. NTP is the most widely distributed protocol on the > Internet, and > > is supported on all available computing platforms. Once synchronized to > USNO via > > NTP you can develop your own apps on local platforms. > > In the past we have randomly varied the format of the web time > output > > just to discourage developers from assuming that its format is suitable > for > > parsing by homegrown applications. > > > > Regards, > > Richard Schmidt > > Network Timing Operations, USNO > > -- > > * ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > * > > ~ Richard Schmidt Systems Engineering Branch > ~ > > ~ Time Service Department > rich.schm...@usno.navy.mil ~ > > ~ U.S. Naval Observatory, Wash., DC 20392 (202)-762-1578; Fax > 762-1511 ~ > > ~ http://tycho.usno.navy.mil > ~ > > * ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > * > > _______________________________________________ > 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
