>Does anyone have a simple piece of FoxPro code to ask a time server
>for the current date?


I don't have the code, but we had this issue when communicating with a backend server. We created a table on the server which automatically populated a datetime field with each new entry. We would insert a new record, and then read the TOP 1 record when sorted by its auto-incrementing id number. We would then delete all entries below that value.

Clunky, but it worked generically on all DB engines that supported auto-population of datetime fields

UPDATE: I did not read the word "time" when I first responded. Just "server". Sigh. :-(