Get server's time

Anon

How to get Sever's time??Please help.

nashirak

remote or local???

Local just grab the date with the

time() function (see manual for examples and instructions)

else if you want time on a remote server you might open a socket to that server @ port 13 (if the daemon is open and running) which is the daytime port. This will give you a date and time...

Hope this helps!

lucianoes

Really?
Could you expand on that, please?

    Luciano ES
    Santos, SP - Brasil

nashirak

On which one?

To get the time on the localhost just:

date ("l dS of F Y h:i:s A",time());

but... I repeate this port must be open (port 13). So you will have to contact this sysAdmin, or if you want to be Rude like me just do a portscan (I think if you are running Linux you can not get seen by doing a nmap -sS <hostname>). Or just telnet into port 13.

telnet <hostname> 13

There is also a regular time port of of port 37, but by telneting into that one it returns "garbage". I think its returning a raw time stamp which you have to format specially.

Ok back to the daytime (port 13 ) though. Just:

$fp = fsockopen("<hostname>",13,$err,$ermsg,40)

This will open a socket to some hostname on port 13 and will catch any error (with &err variable) and will store the error message in &ermsg. It has a 40 sec timeout.

Once you have opened it just:

if(!$fp)
echo "Error has occured " , $ermsg;
else
echo fgets($fp,300);

fclose($fp);

Hope this helps!

lucianoes

OK!

    Luciano ES
    Santos, SP - Brasil