Hi,

I have a question for all you internet perl guru's out there. I am trying to write a script that has a portion of code that I want to trigger at a specific date and time, but since the time that the code runs is very specific (down to the second) I need to have it run based off the website's time, and not my own local time in case they're slightly off. Is there a way to do this?

I was thinking I might be able to get the header from the URL, and that should have the date/time, but that seems very clumsy and it seems like there should be a better way. Can I ping the IP and get a time/date from it that way inside of a perl script? I am using WWW::Mechanize to submit forms on the website if that changes anything.

Thanks in advance for your help

In reply to Website Date by gsparx

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