Trouble with script fetching site

[Stephen Boulet]

You guys are probably right. If you have a hammer ...

John J. Lee wrote:
> Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Stephen Boulet wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying to parse a url to set my hardware & system clock (linux).
>>
>>I can't help with the problem at hand, but I also don't see the
>>reason to do it.  Why not just access an NTP server and grab the
>>time the "proper" way?  Using a web page is a roundabout way of
>>doing it.
> 
> 
> Right.
> 
> 
>>There's a nice setclock.py script which Google can
>>point you to which does the job much more easily.
> 
> 
> On my system, the ntpdate command works nicely.  I run it my PPP
> scripts.
> 
> 
> John