Excerpted from message dated 07-03-96, Tom Torfs to Murray Lesser:

 ML>     The easy way is to write a REXX exec that uses the TIME 
 ML> command in CMD.EXE:  ("{at}time" time_value).

TT>But the purpose of the program is to adjust the clock by analyzing
  >the Tranx: info from the last session with a certain node in the
  >mailer logfile. Can such things be accomplished with REXX, too ? I
  >never used it...
  > 

Hi Tom--

    You've lost me; I know nothing about running a mailer.  However,
REXX is most certainly the easiest, and (arguably) the best, general
purpose language for pulling patterned information out of a text file,
so I am sure that pulling something out of your file can be done.  There
is an old (1992) REXX program that resets the clock from a Naval
Observatory (modem) time signal, that I once modified for my use.  It is
not on the current (June 1996) issue of the Walnut Creek Hobbes Archive
CD-ROM, but it is on the August 1994 issue under the filename
TIMESET.ZIP in the /ALL/PROGRAM/REXX/ directory.  Reading it might give
you some ideas on how to get the time message out of your logfile.

    Incidentally, there is a compiled PM program (language not known) I
downloaded from this (see source-line) BBS in the file TIME868B.ZIP that
resets your clock from an internet call to one of several hosts (I use
the Naval Observatory, but others are listed in the program).  Postcard
Shareware, from Norbert Dey (dey{at}teleport.com).  You might ask him how
he does it.

    Sorry I can't be of more help.

          --Murray

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