- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT

# NAME

Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface

# SYNOPSIS

        use Net::Time qw(inet_time inet_daytime);

        print inet_time();          # use default host from Net::Config
        print inet_time('localhost');
        print inet_time('localhost', 'tcp');

        print inet_daytime();       # use default host from Net::Config
        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 [, 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>

# COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995-2004 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.