Recently, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Until someone can come up with an HTTP link that returns the year with the > date and time, or else Livecode supports NTP queries, we are SOL. I have > searched high and low and cannot find one single web site besides > http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl that returns anything usable. > Leave it up to a sailor to get you most of the way there, and then let you > swim the rest of the way! LOL! (I'm an ex-sailor so I can say that).
A fun challenge. Here's one option, limited to a single time (US Eastern), with no guarantee of reliability (can any Web-based service truly claim this?): function timeStamp put url "http://www.atomictime.net/front.html" into temp wait 500 millisecs with messages put url "http://www.atomictime.net/time_tel.html?2" into temp repeat with N = number of lines of temp down to 1 if line N of temp is not empty then return line N of temp end repeat end timeStamp The reason for the dual URLs is the host requires initial access through a home page. Only thing I can guess is there's some back-end foolery going on that's not accessible (at least I can't see anything that's apparent, but maybe that's just me). I tried setting my system clock back 2 hours and the page continues to return the current Eastern time, so the service *appears* to be legit. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design _______________________________________________ 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