Trouble with script fetching site

[John J. Lee]

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