NAME

Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface

SYNOPSIS

use Net::Time qw(inet_time inet_daytime);

print inet_time('localhost');
print inet_time('localhost', 'tcp');

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])

Obtain the time on HOST 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 unix-like time value or undef upon failure.

inet_daytime ( HOST [, PROTOCOL])

Obtain the time on HOST 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 <Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995 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.