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Create a program that downloads the time from this URL: [http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl] and then prints the current UTC time by extracting just the UTC time from the web page's [[HTML]].▼
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▲Create a program that downloads the time from this URL: [http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl] and then prints the current UTC time by extracting just the UTC time from the web page's [[HTML]].
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If possible, only use libraries that come at no ''extra'' monetary cost with the programming language and that are widely available and popular such as [http://www.cpan.org/ CPAN] for Perl or [[Boost]] for C++.
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