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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, machett AT ibiblio.org wrote:
> 
> 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?

Sure, request an image, or a page you can stick in an iframe, and have
the server side set a cookie containing the date/time. Then read the new
cookie. That should work in most recent browsers, though you're on your
own doing the date-in-a-cookie thing from PHP.

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