You guys never cease to amaze me. Well done! Now if a single developer can produce results like this overnight, I wonder why the very capable devs at RunRev cannot create a world time that does the same thing?
Bob > Folks, > > this thread made me curious... > > I present to you a simple SNTP stack > > go stack "http://andregarzia.com/stacks/libNTPToy.livecode"; > > It is a quick and dirty implementation with no error checking. It has one > function getTime(), you pass the NTP server and it returns the current date > and time in seconds format. I tried with our official Brazilian time servers > and it worked. > > Hope this helps. By the way, I don't truly understand the NTP protocol, I > picked a couple ruby and python code and converted to livecode with the aid > of wireshark marvelous sniffer tool to see the damn datagrams flowing. (I > hate binary protocols) > > =) > > Cheers > andre On Aug 16, 2011, at 10:35 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > I thought it could be done directly with a time server, and one can! > I did some dicking around with sockets and made this up. > > this uses the Daytime Protocol > (RFC-867)<http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm> > > function returnNISTime _______________________________________________ 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
