Subj : Using 4dos to set time to standard.
To   : All
From : ddunfee
Date : Thu Dec 20 2001 08:26 am

From: ddunfee@citynet.com

A recent thread brought up the topic of setting one's time to a standard to 
correct for system drift.  Using dos only and 4dos, i use a shell call up 
account and lynx as my browser.  At:

http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/s/-5

and:

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl

one can get the naval atomic clock standard.  Using my communications software 
and it's macro system, commo, I grab the page as a screen capture and run a btm 
to grab the specific time each returns and as it appears on the web page.  For 
each above respectivly:

@time %@line[f:\hold\scr,3]

and:

@time %@word[3,%@line[f:\hold\scr,5]]

F: is a ram drive and the btm's also reside there as does the screen capture 
file "scrn",  This minimizes responce time so I get as close to the naval time 
as possible.  I put a "beep" at the beginning of the macro and one following 
the above capture lines to gauge the responce time and I can get a resolution 
of 1 second or less most times.  I don't include the commo macro as it has 
nothing to do with 4dos, except integrating it with 4dos functions as above.  I 
imagine most communications software should have similar macro functionality as 
to also use this approach.

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