Perl 5 version 24.3 documentation

Net::Time

NAME

Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface

SYNOPSIS

  1.     use Net::Time qw(inet_time inet_daytime);
  3.     print inet_time();          # use default host from Net::Config
  4.     print inet_time('localhost');
  5.     print inet_time('localhost', 'tcp');
  7.     print inet_daytime();       # use default host from Net::Config
  8.     print inet_daytime('localhost');
  9.     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>

Steve Hay <shay@cpan.org> is now maintaining libnet as of version 1.22_02

COPYRIGHT

Versions up to 2.11 Copyright (c) 1995-2004 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. Changes in Version 2.11 onwards Copyright (C) 2014 Steve Hay. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e. under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License, as specified in the LICENCE file.