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Re: Getting the Date and Time From a Time Server

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• Subject: [mg120906] Re: Getting the Date and Time From a Time Server
• From: Sébastien Roy <roys3d at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:20:19 -0400 (EDT)
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Maybe you could run the "ntpdate" program external and retreive the
time offset between your computer clock and the time server.
(in the following example, the time server is only good in canada)

Run["ntpdate -q time.chu.nrc.ca >/tmp/toto"]
res=Import["/tmp/toto", "Table","FieldSeparators" -> {" ", ","}]
offset=res[[1,6]]   (* not very portable... :-( *)

Now you can use the internal Mathematica clock and add the offset to
get the correct time.

DateList[AbsoluteTime[]+offset]

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