# Net::Time.pm # # Copyright (c) 1995-1997 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. package Net::Time; use strict; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT_OK $TIMEOUT); use Carp; use IO::Socket; require Exporter; use Net::Config; use IO::Select; @ISA = qw(Exporter); @EXPORT_OK = qw(inet_time inet_daytime); $VERSION = do { my @r=(q$Revision: 2.5 $=~/\d+/g); sprintf "%d."."%02d"x$#r,@r}; $TIMEOUT = 120; sub _socket { my($pname,$pnum,$host,$proto,$timeout) = @_; $proto ||= 'udp'; my $port = (getservbyname($pname, $proto))[2] || $pnum; my $hosts = defined $host ? [ $host ] : $NetConfig{$pname . '_hosts'}; my $me; foreach $host (@$hosts) { $me = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $host, PeerPort => $port, Proto => $proto ) and last; } $me->send("\n") if(defined $me && $proto eq 'udp'); $timeout = $TIMEOUT unless defined $timeout; IO::Select->new($me)->can_read($timeout) ? $me : undef; } sub inet_time { my $s = _socket('time',37,@_) || return undef; my $buf = ''; # the time protocol return time in seconds since 1900, convert # it to a unix time (seconds since 1970) $s->recv($buf, length(pack("N",0))) ? (unpack("N",$buf))[0] - 2208988800 : undef; } sub inet_daytime { my $s = _socket('daytime',13,@_) || return undef; my $buf = ''; $s->recv($buf, 1024) ? $buf : undef; } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface =head1 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'); =head1 DESCRIPTION C provides subroutines that obtain the time on a remote machine. =over 4 =item inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]) Obtain the time on C, or some default host if C is not given or not defined, using the protocol as defined in RFC868. The optional argument C should define the protocol to use, either C or C. The result will be a unix-like time value or I upon failure. =item inet_daytime ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]) Obtain the time on C, or some default host if C is not given or not defined, using the protocol as defined in RFC867. The optional argument C should define the protocol to use, either C or C. The result will be an ASCII string or I upon failure. =back =head1 AUTHOR Graham Barr =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1995-1997 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. =cut