On Jun 3, 11:20 pm, livibetter <livibet...@gmail.com> wrote: > This? > > hwclock --utc --set --date="$(datestr="$(curlhttp://208.66.175.36:13/ > 2>/dev/null | cut -d \ -f 2-3)" ; echo ${datestr//-//})" > > Only hwclock, curl, cut, and Bash. > > PS. I didn't know I can set the time via hwclock, learned from Paul's > post, but still didn't try to see if it does work. > >
Thanks for the info. Yes, I like the port 13 stuff from NIST et al which is RFC 867 formatted, but on the hdwe the parsing is more work. Found a bit of port 37 RFC 868 stuff that sounds interesting. I am able to get a long int from it now I think (e.g. 64.236.96.53:37 in Virginia), though it seems to be a bit mangled, and doesn't work out to the number I'd expect for a 1900 epoch. Still, I think it's usable, and is just a single number. I hear NIST is gradually getting away from RFC868 stuff tho' which is too bad. Some of us don't need pS accuracy. +/- 5min is fine. Thx for the input! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list