From: Jeff Peng Date: 2010-01-22T16:10:21+09:00 Subject: Re: Get time object from the web? > Hello there. > I was wondering if, it was possible to connect to the internet and > create a time object (Time.new) from a web clock? It depends on what the web clock is. If you can get the time arguments from it (like day, month, year,hour, minute, second etc), you could use Time.local to create a time object. HTH. Jeff.