Your computer clock maybe wrong......

**enoughfakefiles** · 11-30-2004, 08:46 PM

Mines definatly well out if this is true.

**Mathea** · 11-30-2004, 08:48 PM

mine is always wrong

i fix it n then within 24 hours its wrong again so i finally gave up

**bigboab** · 11-30-2004, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by JPaul

Mine is feckin accurate. It synchronizes with one of those atomic chaps.

Dont you mean atomic chips. Or is that fission chips.

**TheDave** · 11-30-2004, 08:54 PM

i think mine synchronises when it reports my porn to microsoft

**TheDave** · 11-30-2004, 08:57 PM

yep it does

**enoughfakefiles** · 11-30-2004, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by TheDave

yep it does

Windows 2000 doesn`t have that option.

**TheDave** · 11-30-2004, 09:01 PM

fyi its 21:20:42

**Tifosi** · 11-30-2004, 09:10 PM

Code:

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

class Time
{
   /* Network time is seconds from 1 Jan 1900
   *  Java time is milliseconds from 1 Jan 1970
   *  DIFFERENCE is number of seconds between these dates
   */
   static long DIFFERENCE = 2208988800L;
   
   public static void main (String [] args ) throws IOException
   {
      int b1,b2,b3,b4;
      long remoteTime;

      Socket sock = new Socket("time.nist.gov",37);
      InputStream in = sock.getInputStream();

      // read and pack four bytes
      b1 = in.read();
      b2 = in.read();
      b3 = in.read();
      b4 = in.read();

      remoteTime = (((long)b1*256 + b2)*256 + b3)*256 + b4;
      remoteTime -= DIFFERENCE;  
      sock.close();

      Date remoteDate = new Date(remoteTime*1000); // convert to milliseconds      
      System.out.println("Remote time: "+remoteDate);
      Date localTime = new Date();
      System.out.println("Local time: "+localTime);
   }
}