timecert.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import hashlib, urllib, time

def digest( content ):
  return hashlib.sha1( content ).hexdigest()

def timecert( content):
  url =  "http://timecert.org/%s.time"%digest(content)
  timestamp = urllib.urlopen( url ).read()
  return time.strptime(timestamp,"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y")