From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2010-01-22T17:22:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Get time object from the web?

Jose Wong wrote:
> 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?

Instead of using NTP you can simply download some page, via HTTP, from a 
webserver whose clock you trust to be sufficiently accurate. Servers 
send a Date header, which you can use.

Example from the shell:

  wget -q -d -O /dev/null http://google.com 2>&1 | grep ^Date
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