Hal Murray wrote: >> I would like to connect to any server to receive a string where it is >> written the istant time (possibly hh.mm.ss.xxx ). I found several sites >> where I may read hh.mm.ss then downloading the page and reading it I could >> get the string hh.mm.ss but > > I don't know of any servers that do that. > > In the early Arpanet days, there was a RFC describing a time > service available via UDP and TCP. It returned the date and time > as a string. Seconds were good enough back then. >
Perhaps you are thinking of 'rdate' RFC-868. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions