Internet Date Service test

[Stephen Barncard]

I'd rather use a time server that a lot of people use and is maintained. A
private web server's clock depends on ...x for reference?

"Google Public NTP serves leap-smeared time
<https://developers.google.com/time/smear>. We use this technology to
smoothly handle leap seconds with no disruptive events.

We implemented Google Public NTP with our load balancers
<https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/> and our fleet of atomic clocks
in data centers around the world.

   - Configure your network settings to use time.google.com as your NTP
   server."


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On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 7:55 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> You could put a little one line CGI on your server that just returns the
> time and date.
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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
>>>> Fourth World Systems
>>>> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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