Get Time From Internet Using VFP

[FoxT2]

Hi all,

Anyone know of a way to (with VFP) return date and time from a server on the internet without using any 3rd party software. Can you hit yahoo.com or msn.com and get this with VFP?


FoxT

 

[rgbean]

You could always use a Web Service, these is ay least one offered at

http://www.xmethods.com/.

Note: You'll need at least VFP 7.0, and preferably 8.0, and you'll need to install SOAP 3.0.

Rick

 

[darrellblackhawk]

You can make a call on Nettime, but I don't think that's
what you want.

To write a NTP client will take quite a bit of work.
Here's a URL: that explains the spec of NTP.

http://www.ntp.org/

Rfc's:
1305 -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1305.txt?number=1305

2030 -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2030.txt?number=2030

Here's a link to an ActiveX; which I've never used.

http://software.glennhermans.com/Products/TimeServerClient.asp

Darrell

 

[FrenchFox]

h=fcreate(ServerPath + 'foo')
=fclose(h)
?fdate(ServerPath + 'foo',1)

 

[FrenchFox]

Sorry, i didn't noticed "internet" (