Retrieving Timestamp from container

[Samuka]

Hi Everybody.
I'm developing an application that relies strongly on timestamp
values. By now, the app is retrieving a timestamp value from an
external php file in my backend server, through makerequest. However,
it slows considerably the whole system, such simple query. I can't
though rely on javascript date functions, as it would retrieve the
user's configured timestamp. Is there any way to retrieve the
container's-side timestamp?


thanks
Samuel Brandão

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik (Google)]

There's not really a way to do this without fetching the timestamp
from a remote server. How does fetching the timestamp from your own
server slow down the system? You could just have the following in a
file called timestamp.php:

<? echo time(); ?>

And use makeRequest to get this value, which should be very little
overhead for an app. How often are you fetching this timestamp?

~Arne