Internet Date Service test

[Peter Bogdanoff]

Yes, that’s right.

We had a report of a user setting back his OS date to extend his demo. This caused us much consternation, thus the desire for an independent date source.

Peter

> On Sep 14, 2018, at 5:56 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I think the goal is an independent time (date) source to ensure that the value is correct. I’m curious about the best solution. Probably would involve your own server though.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> On Sep 14, 2018, 7:36 PM -0500, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
>> Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
>> 
>>> And… if anyone has a method that doesn’t rely on the user’s local
>>> date/time I’d like to hear that…
>> 
>> Using "the seconds" returns a value that accounts for local GMT offset.
>> with the value returned being for GMT.
>> 
>> So if you get the seconds and then display them on a machine set to a
>> different time zone, the time zone will be taken into account when using
>> the convert command to display them in any human-readable format.
>> 
>> FWIW "the internet date" is similarly useful for converting to other
>> formats in ways that take local time zone into account.
>> 
>> AFAIK those are the only two built-in date formats that account for GMT
>> offset, but I've used both for network services where users trade data
>> across many time zones and they work quite well.
>> 
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World Systems
>> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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