httpclock. A useless way to tell the time with HTTP status codes…
I made this a few months back as a fun little project and it has absolutely no utility whatsoever. The server returns the current time in the request's status code — i.e., as long as the time can be mapped to a valid HTTP status code (e.g., 4:04pm -> 404 Not found) the server returns that status code for the request. Example: https://x.com/scottinallcaps/status/1827211120194486597 The httpclock.com domain detects timezone by IP and redirects to the respective subdomain such as pt.httpclock.com (but will fall back to UTC) A browser will show a blank page for most of…
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I made this a few months back as a fun little project and it has absolutely no utility whatsoever. The server returns the current time in the request's status code — i.e., as long as the time can be mapped to a valid HTTP status code (e.g., 4:04pm -> 404 Not found) the server returns that status code for the request. Example: https://x.com/scottinallcaps/status/1827211120194486597 The httpclock.com domain detects timezone by IP and redirects to the respective subdomain such as pt.httpclock.com (but will fall back to UTC) A browser will show a blank page for most of the day given the number of valid status codes, but you can check other timezone subdomains, e.g. `curl -I https://cet.httpclock.com` Note: "Invalid" times will return 999 with no content. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this very useless clock. I plan to post the code on GitHub soon since I may as well. Thanks!
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