#!/usr/local/bin/perl -Tw require 5.6.0; use Socket; use FileHandle; use strict; my($remote, $port, @thataddr, $that,$them, $proto,@now,$hertime); print "client\n"; $remote = shift || 'localhost' ; $port = 99999 ; # timeserver is at this port number @thataddr=gethostbyname($remote); $that = pack('Sna4x8', AF_INET, $port, $thataddr[4]); $proto = getprotobyname('tcp'); if ( socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto ) ){ print "Socket ok.\n"; } else { die $!; } if (connect(SOCK, $that)) { print "Connect ok.\n"; } else { die $!; } SOCK->autoflush; $hertime = ; close(SOCK); print "Server machine time is: $hertime\n"; @now = localtime($hertime); print "\tTime-$now[2]:$now[1] ","Date-",$now[4]+1,"/$now[3]/$now[5]\n";