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Re: Get time and date from a server using a socket [message #65407 is a reply to message #65343]

Sat, 28 February 2009 14:01

DMW
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Registered: February 2009

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"Allan Whiteford" <allan.remove@phys.remove.strath.ac.remove.uk> wrote in
message news:go8b7n$is7$1@menace.cc.strath.ac.uk...
> bernat wrote:
>
> The following works for me:
>
> IDL> socket, lun, 'time-a.nist.gov', 13, /get_lun
> IDL> mystring=''
> IDL> readf, lun, mystring
> IDL> readf, lun, mystring
> IDL> free_lun, lun
> IDL> print, mystring
> 54889 09-02-27 08:52:23 00 0 0 807.6 UTC(NIST) *
>
Something's wrong here. With the change to DST in the U.S. and Canada only
a couple of weeks away, why is the DST field set to 00? As of today it
should read 58 if I understand the formatting correctly.

It's not just *.nist.gov servers that are displaying this. bldrdoc.gov is
doing the same.

Brian Garrett

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		Re: Get time and date from a server using a socket By: Allan Whiteford on Fri, 27 February 2009 08:34
		Re: Get time and date from a server using a socket By: Brian Larsen on Fri, 27 February 2009 07:09
		Re: Get time and date from a server using a socket By: natha on Fri, 27 February 2009 07:04
		Re: Get time and date from a server using a socket By: Allan Whiteford on Fri, 27 February 2009 01:19
		Re: Get time and date from a server using a socket By: natha on Thu, 26 February 2009 05:52
		Re: Get time and date from a server using a socket By: Allan Whiteford on Thu, 26 February 2009 00:21
		Re: Get time and date from a server using a socket By: Rick Towler on Mon, 02 March 2009 10:22
		Re: Get time and date from a server using a socket By: DMW on Sat, 28 February 2009 14:01

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