Get Time from internet

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Does anyone have code to get time from internet?

Posted 14-Dec-11 23:15pm

RajithKannanrs

Updated 8-Oct-19 23:52pm

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Bojjaiah 15-Dec-11 5:22am

can u clarify your question.

6 solutions

Solution 6

This works fine for me:

Takes like 10 secs on my device. But seconds doesnt matter in my case, because i only use it to campare to TimeDate.Now

C#

public static DateTime GetNistTime()
{
    DateTime dateTime = DateTime.MinValue;

    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://nist.time.gov/actualtime.cgi?lzbc=siqm9b");
    request.Method = "GET";
    request.Accept = "text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */*";
    request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)";
    request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
    request.CachePolicy = new RequestCachePolicy(RequestCacheLevel.NoCacheNoStore); //No caching
    HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
    if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
    {
        StreamReader stream = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
        string html = stream.ReadToEnd();//<timestamp time="\"1395772696469995\"" delay="\"1395772696469995\"/">
        string time = Regex.Match(html, @"(?<=\btime="")[^""]*").Value;
        double milliseconds = Convert.ToInt64(time) / 1000.0;
        dateTime = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1).AddMilliseconds(milliseconds).ToLocalTime();
    }

    return dateTime;
}

All Credit to http://stackoverflow.com/a/9830462/4012980

Posted 21-Dec-14 9:27am

User 11197367

Updated 21-Dec-14 9:32am

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 21-Dec-14 15:36pm

Don't you think that after 3 years and 4 accepted answers OP got it already...

[no name] 21-Dec-14 15:47pm

It can't harm

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 21-Dec-14 15:56pm

It is not accepted to answer such old, answered questions again after years - it has the smell of reputation hunting...
Use your knowledge to answer new questions...

[no name] 21-Dec-14 18:48pm

Yea Sorry, I am new User

But it's fine as long as the given Information is worth more than the worth of the Reputition.

Wernervantonder 17-Nov-15 11:27am

I read this article 4 years later and found iLembus answer interesting. So take your reputation and keep it. who cares.

johnmcpherson10 8-Mar-18 8:51am

Why is the dissemination of knowledge wrong?
Check your ego, It appears to me that you just want to bash someone who is trying to help.
Who took your candy?

Solution 8

public static Nullable<DateTime> GetDateTime()
{
    Nullable<DateTime> dateTime = null;
    System.Net.HttpWebRequest request = (System.Net.HttpWebRequest)System.Net.WebRequest.Create("http://www.microsoft.com");
    request.Method = "GET";
    request.Accept = "text/html, application/xhtml+xml, */*";
    request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)";
    request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
    request.CachePolicy = new System.Net.Cache.RequestCachePolicy(System.Net.Cache.RequestCacheLevel.NoCacheNoStore);
    try
    {
        System.Net.HttpWebResponse response = (System.Net.HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        if (response.StatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK)
        {
            string todaysDates = response.Headers["date"];

            dateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(todaysDates, "ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss 'GMT'",
                System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.DateTimeFormat, System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.AssumeUniversal);
        }
    }
    catch
    {
        dateTime = null;
    }
    return dateTime;
}

Posted 8-Oct-19 23:53pm

Prashant Manjule

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Neha Thanka · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-14T23:23:00

public static DateTime GetFastestNISTDate() { var result = DateTime.MinValue;     
 // Initialize the list of NIST time servers
        // http://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi
        string[] servers = new string[] {
"nist1-ny.ustiming.org",
"nist1-nj.ustiming.org",
"nist1-pa.ustiming.org",
"time-a.nist.gov",
"time-b.nist.gov",
"nist1.aol-va.symmetricom.com",
"nist1.columbiacountyga.gov",
"nist1-chi.ustiming.org",
"nist.expertsmi.com",
"nist.netservicesgroup.com"
};

        // Try 5 servers in random order to spread the load
        Random rnd = new Random();
        foreach (string server in servers.OrderBy(s => rnd.NextDouble()).Take(5))
        {
            try
            {
                // Connect to the server (at port 13) and get the response
                string serverResponse = string.Empty;
                using (var reader = new StreamReader(new System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient(server, 13).GetStream()))
                {
                    serverResponse = reader.ReadToEnd();
                }

                // If a response was received
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(serverResponse))
                {
                    // Split the response string ("55596 11-02-14 13:54:11 00 0 0 478.1 UTC(NIST) *")
                    string[] tokens = serverResponse.Split(' ');

                    // Check the number of tokens
                    if (tokens.Length >= 6)
                    {
                        // Check the health status
                        string health = tokens[5];
                        if (health == "0")
                        {
                            // Get date and time parts from the server response
                            string[] dateParts = tokens[1].Split('-');
                            string[] timeParts = tokens[2].Split(':');

                            // Create a DateTime instance
                            DateTime utcDateTime = new DateTime(
                                Convert.ToInt32(dateParts[0]) + 2000,
                                Convert.ToInt32(dateParts[1]), Convert.ToInt32(dateParts[2]),
                                Convert.ToInt32(timeParts[0]), Convert.ToInt32(timeParts[1]),
                                Convert.ToInt32(timeParts[2]));

                            // Convert received (UTC) DateTime value to the local timezone
                            result = utcDateTime.ToLocalTime();

                            return result;
                            // Response successfully received; exit the loop

                        }
                    }

                }

            }
            catch
            {
                // Ignore exception and try the next server
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

riteshsingh_jsr · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-14T23:23:00

Solution 1

You can check out this, would be helpful for u

http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/140474/how-to-get-internet-time-from-vb-net-application.aspx

Posted 14-Dec-11 23:23pm

riteshsingh_jsr

Code 89 · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-15T00:29:00

http://www.google.com/codesearch/

Try this

var client = new TcpClient("64.90.182.55", 13);
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(client.GetStream()))
{
    var response = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
    var utcDateTimeString = response.Substring(7, 17);
    var localDateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(utcDateTimeString, "yy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, DateTimeStyles.AssumeUniversal);
}

pls go thru this linkhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/6435099/get-datetime-from-internet-in-c-sharp

RempoRaaj · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-15T01:12:00

Solution 4

refer at:"http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vb/daytime.aspx"

Posted 15-Dec-11 1:12am

RempoRaaj