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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How do you ask the server time?
Message-ID: <19881021125456.2.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 21 Oct 88 12:54:00 GMT
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    Date: 14 Oct 88 23:35:30 GMT
    From: mcvax!ukc!acorn!steve@uunet.uu.net  (Steve "daffy" Hunt)

    I found I wanted to enquire from the X11r2 server what its current
    time was; that is, ask it what timestamp it would put on an event
    if one should happen right now.

There is no straightforward way to do this.  A backhanded way is to
select PropertyChangeMask on a window you own, change a property, and
look at the timestamp in the PropertyNotify event you get back.