[time-nuts] NTP Synchronised Nixie Tube Clock

Wed May 9 02:02:36 UTC 2007

Well, that is even more interesting! You are correct of course, I had 
not noticed.
I use a commercial ISP and I will open a service ticket.

I developed the original format of the web site (including the little 
bit of Javascript) on a local Linux box a number of moons ago and 
transfered it to a commercial ISP that shall remain nameless. At the 
time, that was working (maybe the only thing that was working with that 
ISP...) When I got tired of that ISP and switched to my current ISP 
(Globat) 3 or 4 years ago, I do not remember checking the time stamps. 
My fault :-(
I do not know how long it's been like that.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Didier KO4BB

PS: just for grins, I copied the Clock/index.html page to my cox.net 
webspace (which I do not normally use) and it returns the right date, so 
the Javascript at least is still OK.

http://members.cox.net/didier/

Mike S wrote:
> At 07:22 PM 5/8/2007, Didier Juges wrote...
>   
>> The page uses Javascript to instruct the browser to fetch the document 
>>
>> updated time stamp. It seems like your browser does not handle
>> Javascript the way it's intended. The way it's supposed to work: the
>> Javascript instructs the browser to fetch the document's time stamp 
>> and
>> render it on the page. The browser is either ignoring the request and
>> putting some default value, or it does not fetch it properly and fails 
>>
>> to convert the date to a proper text string.
>>     
>
> Actually, it appears to be a misconfiguration of your web site. It is 
> not returning Last-Modified: to an HTTP/1.1 request. Both a local site 
> and a different remote site I tested work fine.
>
> On your site, Opera 9.2 always returns January 1, 1970 GMT. IE7 and 
> Firefox 2.0 always return the current time (the timestamp will change 
> each time the page is reloaded). IE/Firefox are simply using the Date: 
> response because the Last-Modified: response is missing.
>
> A manual HTTP get from your site:
>
>   
>> hamburg:/tmp# telnet www.ko4bb.com 80
>> Trying 203.22.204.117...
>> Connected to ko4bb.com.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> GET /ham_radio/Clock/ HTTP/1.1
>> Host: www.ko4bb.com
>>
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:47:29 GMT
>> Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2623
>> Vary: Host
>> Connection: close
>> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>> Content-Type: text/html
>>
>> 9cc
>> <HTML>
>> ...
>>     
>
> The Javascript works fine on a local web site. Manually doing an HTTP 
> get returns:
>   
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:36:40 GMT
>> Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Debian) PHP/4.4.4-8+etch2 mod_ssl/2.8.25 
>> OpenSSL/0.9.8c
>> Last-Modified: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:27:51 GMT
>> ETag: "1a5846-611-46411587"
>> Accept-Ranges: bytes
>> Content-Length: 1553
>> Connection: close
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
>> <HTML>...
>>     
>
> Also, a manual get from http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/last-mod.htm :
>
>   
>> hamburg:/tmp# telnet www.merlyn.demon.co.uk 80
>> Trying 194.159.245.16...
>> Connected to service.homepages.demon.net.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> GET /last-mod.htm HTTP/1.1
>> Host: www.merlyn.demon.co.uk
>>
>> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
>> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:56:01 GMT
>> Server: thttpd/1.00.disbu
>> Content-type: text/html
>> Content-length: 6693
>> Last-modified: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:00:00 GMT
>> ...
>>     
>
>
>
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