How to take another system time?

[arun mahajan]

hello,
I was running one java stand alone application on one computer and would like to know the System time of another computer on same network. IP of the computer is available. Is it possible? how?
regards,
Arun :roll:

[Stanley Tan]

Hmm... interesting. I don't think this is possible, but if it is, let me know!
I guess you probably wouldn't want to run an RMI server on the "other" computer, right? Hehe. Oh well, that's one option.

[Corey McGlone]

Originally posted by Stanley Tan:
I guess you probably wouldn't want to run an RMI server on the "other" computer, right?

This would seem to me like the only feasible solution. You need some sort of server running on the other server so that you can "ask it" for its system time.
To set this up using RMI is actually pretty simple.
I hope that helps,
Corey