Hi tore, i am using Livecode Server for such tasks.
To get the correct date in an LC app i use put URL “http://yourserver.com/whatsthetime.lc” into tCurrentDate where yourserver.com is of course my server and whatsthetime.lc contains the following put the short system time or put the system date Before LC server i used a php script to get the current date in my Flash Advent calendar. Regards, Matthias Matthias Rebbe Bramkampsieke 13 32312 Lübbecke Tel +49 5741 310000 +49 160 5504462 Fax: +49 5741 310002 eMail: matth...@m-r-d.de <mailto:matth...@m-r-d.de> BR5 Konverter - BR5 -> MP3 <http://matthiasrebbe.eu/portfolio/produkte/brx/> > Am 12.01.2017 um 15:58 schrieb Tore Nilsen <tore.nil...@me.com>: > > I need to retrieve the date from an external source, in order to bypass any > changes to the date settings on the users computer. This is to ensure that a > user cannot start an event until the proper date. (A digital advent calendar) > I was foolishly thinking that the internet date was what I was looking for, > but it is just another way to format the internal date as set by the user. > Therefore, getting the internet date does not bypass any changes to the > machines local settings. > > Information about the proper date for each event is stored as a custom > property of different images in the application. This property is in the form > of localized date, and is converted to seconds for comparison with the > actually date, which of course is also converted to seconds. Everything here > works as expected, but changing the computers date settings will allow the > user to override the restraints in the script. I therefore need to get the > date from a source outside the control of the user. (The application is a > desktop standalone.) > > I am in a bit of a hurry (deadline on Thursday this week) and I can not seem > to find any solutions searching for it in the usual places. I am unfamiliar > with retrieving data from servers and services, so I am unfortunately stuck > at the moment. Any help will much appreciated. > > Regards > Tore Nilsen > _______________________________________________ > 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
