note 64050 added to function.date

Here's a bit of a hack that is handy to run as a cron job to keep your system clock in sync (for *nix systems). While this is subject to change, the www.time.gov web site hasn't changed in about a decade. Its currently set for the United States east coast time; change the URL's "-5" to set appropriately for your time zone. <?php $fp=fopen("http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5","r"); while(!feof($fp)) { $data=fgets($fp,4096); if(strstr($data,"<td align=\"center\"><font size=\"7\" color=\"white\"><b>")) { $data=trim(str_replace("<td align=\"center\"><font size=\"7\" color=\"white\"><b>","",str_replace("<br>","",$data))\ ); $data=explode(":",$data); if(strlen($data[2]==1)) $data[2]="0".$data[2]; exec("date ".date("md").$data[0].$data[1].date("y").".".($data[2]+3)); echo("date ".date("md").$data[0].$data[1].date("y").".".($data[2]+3)); die(); } } ?> ---- Server IP: 216.194.113.175 Probable Submitter: 67.154.250.154 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER, HTML_20_30,HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNKNOWN,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/64050 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64050/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64050/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64050/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64050/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64050/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64050/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64050 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/64050 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php