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Net::Time(3pm)                        Perl Programmers Reference Guide                        Net::Time(3pm)



NAME
       Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface

SYNOPSIS
           use Net::Time qw(inet_time inet_daytime);

           print inet_time();          # use default host from Net::Config
           print inet_time('localhost');
           print inet_time('localhost', 'tcp');

           print inet_daytime();       # use default host from Net::Config
           print inet_daytime('localhost');
           print inet_daytime('localhost', 'tcp');

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 if "HOST" is not given or not defined, using the
           protocol as defined in RFC868. The optional argument "PROTOCOL" should define the protocol to
           use, either "tcp" or "udp". 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 if "HOST" is not given or not defined, using the
           protocol as defined in RFC867. The optional argument "PROTOCOL" should define the protocol to
           use, either "tcp" or "udp". 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.



perl v5.8.8                                      2001-09-21                                   Net::Time(3pm)