Plain simple unix timestamp with an HTTP GET

[Ross]

On Jun 3, 11:20 pm, livibetter <livibet... at gmail.com> wrote:
> This?
>
> hwclock --utc --set --date="$(datestr="$(curlhttp://208.66.175.36:13/
> 2>/dev/null | cut -d \  -f 2-3)" ; echo ${datestr//-//})"
>
> Only hwclock, curl, cut, and Bash.
>
> PS. I didn't know I can set the time via hwclock, learned from Paul's
> post, but still didn't try to see if it does work.
>
>

Thanks for the info.  Yes, I like the port 13 stuff from NIST et al
which is  RFC 867 formatted, but on the hdwe the parsing is more
work.

Found a bit of port 37  RFC 868 stuff that sounds interesting. I am
able to get a long int from it now I think (e.g. 64.236.96.53:37 in
Virginia), though it seems to be a bit mangled, and doesn't work out
to the number I'd expect for a 1900 epoch. Still, I think it's usable,
and is just a single number.

I hear NIST is gradually getting away from RFC868 stuff tho' which is
too bad. Some of us don't need pS accuracy. +/- 5min is fine.

Thx for the input!