Time Distribution Using the World Wide Web
Andrew N. Novick, P. R. Franchois, Michael A. Lombardi, W D. Lee · 2002
Technology (NIST) is currently providing users of the Internet with a running time-of-day clock on a web page. It uses a combination of Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), Perl, Java and JavaScript to show the time for a chosen time zone. Processing and path delays are estimated to provide the client with an idea of how close the time displayed is to Coordinated Universal Time- UTC(NIST). Several future possibilities and uses of this technology will be discussed. WHAT IT DOES A client visits the web sites at either