time/date from their servers from inside an Access 97 app and
VBA. Their reply is shown below. Trouble is, I do not know how
to do what they've recommended. Anybody on this forum know
what is specifically needed?
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Hello,
I'm sure the Daytime Protocol (RFC-867) is much better imple-
mented. I would like to know how to implement it from
within Visual Basic on a web-enabled PC.
Establish a connection to tcp port 13 on any of our servers. The
server will respond with a single line of text giving the date and
time in a rather obvious format.
The time message is derived directly from our atomic clock ensemble,
and it should be accurate to about 0.1 seconds or better.
I don't know how eBay determines the time, and I don't know if it
is correct.
Judah Levine
Time and Frequency Division
NIST Boulder