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[machett AT ibiblio.org]

I'm thinking of building a better webclock, but I'm at an impasse.

Does JavaScript have a function to call the date and time from the server?

If not, does anyone know if information can be communicated between script 
types, say JavaScript and PHP.  I know PHP has a Java extention [--with-Java] 
to allow PHP to handle Java objects, but I don't need to go so far.  I'd like 
to call the date() in PHP and then pass that to a time/counter script in 
JavaScript.

I'd do the whole thing in PHP, but I can't think of a function to call the 
local timezone or date-time from the client computer.  Anyone know of one?

thanks,
Alan