Accessing Universal time

programming flash
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Hi all
I am trying to get hold of the current time, Not the OS Local time to work a count down timer.

to be specific I wouold like to get hold of GMT and count from there, thus avoiding the issue where users might have the wrong date and time settings.

any pointers or sites that will provide this data feed.

from there I will use the UTCDate class to do the rest of the work.

var now:Date = new Date();
trace(now.getUTCMonth());
trace(UTCMonthLabels[now.getUTCMonth()]);