Internet Date Service test

[J. Landman Gay]

You could put a little one line CGI on your server that just returns the 
time and date.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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On September 14, 2018 8:47:51 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Richard Gaskin
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