Internet Date Service test

[Stephen Barncard]

how about google time?

https://developers.google.com/time/

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Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
mixstream.org

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >> --
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