Perl 5 version 20.3 documentation
Net::Time
NAME
Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Net::Time
provides subroutines that obtain the time on a remote machine.
- inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]])
Obtain the time on
HOST
, or some default host ifHOST
is not given or not defined, using the protocol as defined in RFC868. The optional argumentPROTOCOL
should define the protocol to use, eithertcp
orudp
. The result will be a time value in the same units as returned by time() or undef upon failure. - inet_daytime ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]])
Obtain the time on
HOST
, or some default host ifHOST
is not given or not defined, using the protocol as defined in RFC867. The optional argumentPROTOCOL
should define the protocol to use, eithertcp
orudp
. The result will be an ASCII string or undef upon failure.
AUTHOR
Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995-2004 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.