12.5. Getting date and time information from server

12.5.1. Why server time?

From the canonical client–server interaction, we know that a server is basically a machine to hold XHTML (or HTML) files and send them to the browsers. In fact, the capabilities of servers are far beyond the original HTML imagination. Enhanced by various Web technologies including security, they can perform all kinds of processing, manipulations and protection checks before sending the XHTML (or HTML) files. Server technologies will be discussed in Parts IV and V. In the following sections, we will introduce some techniques that can be used to obtain the date and time information from the server. That is, to ask the server to send date and time to the browser as XHTML ...

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