Retrieving Date and Time From a Remote Computer

Gregory Lypny gregory.lypny at videotron.ca
Tue Aug 16 12:37:26 EDT 2011


Hi Bob,

No, just my office Mac a few kilometres away.  I was thinking of other ways of not relying on the date and time settings of users who would FTP data to me.  If my client app can grab the date and time from my office make, then I have a consistent timestamp that I can rely on.


Gregory



On Tue, Aug 16, 2011, at 11:44 AM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:24:30 -0700
> From: Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com>
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> Subject: Re: Retrieving Date and Time From a Remote Computer
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> Remote as in a different time zone?? If they are both set to query a time server, then the remote mac will ALWAYS have the same time as the local one. If it is always in the same time zone, calculate it. 
> 
> Apart from that, I suppose you would have to ssh in which means setting up firewalls (ick). Or else you would have to set up some kind of server that could be queried, but still firewall issues. 
> 
> Bob




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