The original party was trying to find something with a resolution greater than 1 s but in ASCII.
Greg Dowd gdowd at symmetricom dot com (antispam format) Symmetricom, Inc. www.symmetricom.com "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler" Albert Einstein > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of David L. Mills > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:35 PM > To: questions@lists.ntp.org > Subject: Re: [ntp:questions] A question > > Hal, > > "telnet ntp.alaska.edu daytime". Other busy NIST servers > don't do TCP/TIME anymore, but others might. > > Dave > > DaveHal 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. > > > > You can probably find code that does that and patch it to > return what > > you want. That assumes you have a server you can run it on. > > > > If you are happy with binary results (rather than a string) > you could > > use NTP. (Don't forget to consider time zones.) > > > > _______________________________________________ > questions mailing list > questions@lists.ntp.org > https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions