Catching / storing / setting real time and date.

I've seen no mention of this, but is there any way to find and store for recall the exact time of day (Real time, not in-game) and current date? I know players have a / function to call date and time when on b.net, is there any way for the map to fake it and catch that info? If not, can the map force a player to send the command to the server and catch the results?

I have a map that would benefit drastically from this, as for right now, the host needs to input this data. If the map could gather the info itself, then I could do want I want and have it so that if you are not on b.net, then you play the dumbed-down version, and if you're on b.net and multiplayer, then you can get access to a bunch more stuff.

try to get time from null timer, BJ uses null timer for tournament time track

Also you can try making it so that a computer player sends a chat message so that b-net can then respond with the date/time. Then get the string sent from b0net. I think that might work but on single player i have no clue.

There is a function to send a message and I thing that it might work I am not shure tho like I said in my post.

[sarcasm]Oh yeah, that will definatly work, seen as though there is a function that orders a computer to type and there is a function to see what comes up on a computers screen[/sarcasm]

Well... I'm relatively new to triggers/jass (read: never played with at all)... and, well... I figured that would of worked. :P