Use online clock to authenticate time in calc?

[hartmut]

I would like to insure that a record could not ripened until a future date . People could. Change the date on their systems . I want to find a sure-fire way to get the accurate time on the Internet so there would be no cheating. Any suggestions are very appreciated .thank you

[Vaughan]

If the solution is hosted with FileMaker Server, you could use the Get( CurrentHostTimestamp ) calculation to get the date and time from the host computer, not the client computer.

[hartmut]

It's hosted at yahoo. Any other ideas ?

[Vaughan]

Hosted at Yahoo: what does that mean? Is it on a cloud file server or is it running in a virtual machine running FM Server?

[eos]

Use a web viewer to navigate to a major website (newspaper, news service, government agency) which has the current date on display and parse it out.

[hartmut]

Thank you. I do not have a dedicated filemaker hosting. I just use yahoo for hosting