time out when net problem

From: Pablo (portiz_at_hal.famaf.unc.edu.ar)
Date: 01/23/04 

Date: 23 Jan 2004 13:56:07 -0800

Hi, I have a program that uses an idSNTP client to get the current
time, but sometimes the unternet connection goes down and the program
cant get the time and halts. How can my program stop the sntp client
to restore the program control with a personal error message? thanks.