Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

[Gregory Lypny]

I too am scratching my head on that one, Bob.

Gregory


On Tue, Aug 16, 2011, at 6:46 PM, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

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> From: Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com>
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> I see the problem here. The url I use does not return the year! And I cannot just get the year from the system date, because that defeats the whole purpose of a "RealTime" function. Going to have to do a bit more research. 
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> Bob
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> On Aug 16, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
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>> Hi Bob,
>> 
>> Good summary, Bob.  It summarizes nicely the issues that I?m dealing with in creating a client-side student helper app.  Your RealTime function works nicely.  The only thing missing is the year, which again, is something that a user could set manually.
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>> Regards,
>> 
>> Gregory
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