Thanks Waren and Scott. I will have a look at those. I can extrapolate UTX time from those zones I suppose, and then do the math for the particular time zone in the system settings.
Thanks. Bob On Aug 16, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:13:58 AM Bob Sneidar wrote: >> Okay, I contacted the USNO site via email and requested that they include >> the year in the returned date/time. > > You could try this: > > http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_CA-QC.aspx > > Your time info is here in the html it returns (example): > > <div id="analog-digital"> > <span class="font7"> > 5:10 PM > </span> > </div> > <strong> > Tuesday, August 16, 2011</strong> > <br /> > <span class="font1"> > Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) -0400 > UTC > > Isolate this from the rest of the source and filter out the lines that begin > with <, and you'll have what you're looking for. If you want a different > city, just select one > from the list and copy that URL. > > Warren > > _______________________________________________ > > 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