RosettaCodeData/Task/Web-scraping/00DESCRIPTION

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;Task:
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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{{task|Networking and Web Interaction}}
The page http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl is no longer available since July 2011.
The relevant part of that page source looked like this:
<pre>
...
<TITLE>What time is it?</TITLE>
<H2> US Naval Observatory Master Clock Time</H2> <H3><PRE>
<BR>Jul. 27, 22:57:22 UTC Universal Time
<BR>Jul. 27, 06:57:22 PM EDT Eastern Time
<BR>Jul. 27, 05:57:22 PM CDT Central Time
<BR>Jul. 27, 04:57:22 PM MDT Mountain Time
<BR>Jul. 27, 03:57:22 PM PDT Pacific Time
<BR>Jul. 27, 02:57:22 PM AKDT Alaska Time
<BR>Jul. 27, 12:57:22 PM HAST Hawaii-Aleutian Time
...
</pre>
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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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