Function GetUTC() As String Url = "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl" With CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.6.0") .Open "GET", Url, False .send arrt = Split(.responseText, vbLf) End With For Each t In arrt If InStr(t, "UTC") Then GetUTC = StripHttpTags(t) Exit For End If Next End Function Function StripHttpTags(s) With New RegExp .Global = True .Pattern = "\<.+?\>" If .Test(s) Then StripHttpTags = .Replace(s, "") Else StripHttpTags = s End If End With End Function WScript.StdOut.Write GetUTC WScript.StdOut.WriteLine