[squeak-dev] How to get date/time from internet atomic clock
tim Rowledge
tim at rowledge.org
Sat Jan 19 00:36:25 UTC 2013
On 18-01-2013, at 3:59 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 January 2013 23:45, Louis LaBrunda <Lou at keystone-software.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm getting a Raspberry Pi. I think I may need and automatic way to set
>> the date and time. I have some code in VA Smalltalk to get it from an
>> internet atomic clock server but before I try to port it to Squeak, I'm
>> wondering if there isn't already code present?
>>
>> Also, if not, can someone please point me to some internet socket class to
>> use to talk to the atomic clock server (UDP). Thanks in advance.
>
> You could use ntp to connect to the clock, and talk to ntp?
Pretty much every OS - yes, even RISC OS - already does that, the time ought to be set before you even get a chance to start Squeak.
tim
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