It seems like time.xmlrpc.com is gone (again?).  That service was
provided by userland.com, who have an xmlrpc server that they mention in
their documentation examples (see for example
http://frontier.userland.com/changes/kernel71) which argues that they
will probably keep the service alive.

The attached patch adds a second test to test_xmlrpc_net to access the
example service directly at userland, and changes both tests to raise
unittest.SkipTest if the service is not accessible.