Message-Id: <199912231232.OAA15100@www.Foo.COM>
From: "S. M. Halloran" <mitch AT duzen DOT com DOT tr>
Organization: User RFC 822- and 1123-compliant
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:40:09 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Subject: Accessing Internet Time
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b)
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com


I want to add a feature to my program to reference time from the Internet 
rather than use the system (machine) clock, for several reasons I won't 
list here.  I plan on making connections to NTP secondary time servers to 
get my timestamps for this.  Since my program is a CGI app (for the 
present), a net connection is virtually assurred.  My questions are:

1. Is accessing a time server by NTP the way I ought to go to get my time 
notes: (i) I don't want to reference any host on my LAN or subnet...I'd 
just get my host's anyway  (ii) getting the system's time will be a backup 
procedure if a timeout getting it on the net occurs.

2. I don't want to write the code for getting my time, whether through NTP 
or whatever else is suggested, if someone has already implemented the RFCs 
for me.  Can someone point me to libraries (must link with Win32/LCC) or 
source?  Thanks.

Mitch Halloran