Internet Time...

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Mar 28 23:52:36 UTC 2002


On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:56:05PM -0800, John M McIntosh wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I just realised there is nothing to get 'Internet Time' in Squeak.
> >>If I write the code, what will I have to do to submit it for updation in the
> >>final image?
> >>
> >>~Mayuresh
> 
> This is all fine and good, but maybe we need to have a primitive that 
> will give UTC time *if* the VM will support it, if not then fall back 
> to Ned's solution via a port 37 call.
> 
> Mmm any takers?

Lex Spoon posted the code for this several centuries ago (in "Internet
Time") and has reminded the list about it a number of times since then.
I've saved a copy if there is renewed interest.

Dave




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