use strict; use IO::Socket; my $socket = new IO::Socket::INET ( PeerAddr => 'ptbtime1.ptb.de', PeerPort => 37, Proto => 'tcp' ) or die "Kein Socket bekommen!"; my @stat = stat($socket); print join "\n", @stat; read ($socket, my $buffer, 4); print unpack "N", $buffer; # seconds since 1.1.1900