;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]]. Alternatively, if the above url is not working, grab the first date/time off this page's talk page.

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The relevant part of that page source looked like this:
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<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

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</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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