just get them to send messages to each other repeatedly and find the time between sends/gets, no need to syncronise timers, just record the time in msecs between 200 pings and take the average, the time will be the transmission time, you don`t need to know what time of the day it happened, just how long it took.
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Edit: Ian M...stop looking over my shoulder when I`m typing
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