How can I get internet datetime

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Hello, I try get datetime from internet not system time but internet time, How can I get datetime in specific format? Works right only this:

Label4.Text = DateTime.ParseExact(myHttpWebRequest.Headers("date"), "ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss 'GMT'", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.DateTimeFormat, DateTimeStyles.AssumeUniversal)

I need for label2 - yyyyMMdd HH:mm:ss
for label3 - HH:mm:ss

Thank you

What I have tried:

 Public Sub internet_date(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
        Dim myHttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create("Http://www.microsoft.com").GetResponse()
        Label2.Text = DateTime.ParseExact(myHttpWebRequest.Headers("date"), "HH:mm:ss 'GMT'", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.DateTimeFormat, DateTimeStyles.AssumeUniversal)
Label3.Text = DateTime.ParseExact(myHttpWebRequest.Headers("date"), "yyyyMMdd HH:mm:ss 'GMT'", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.DateTimeFormat, DateTimeStyles.AssumeUniversal)
end sub

Posted 12-Jan-20 21:15pm

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Updated 12-Jan-20 21:37pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2020-01-12T21:38:00

Solution 1

There is no such thing as "internet time" - there is only one "time" that is the same across the world and that is UTC - Coordinated Universal Time (it started in French so the acronym doesn't match the actual name: usie UTC and you'll be fine).

You can get that from any system in VB : DateTime.UtcNow Property (System) | Microsoft Docs[^] or you can query an NTP server on the internet: NTP Server Time[^]

Posted 12-Jan-20 21:38pm

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CPallini 13-Jan-20 3:40am

5.

phil.o 13-Jan-20 4:38am

That's not French either :) A French acronym would be TUC. UTC is just a compromise between CUT and TUC.

OriginalGriff 13-Jan-20 4:52am

Shows how good my French is! :laugh:
I was assured years ago it was "Universel Temps Coordonné" - so I'll have to track someone down and have them beaten quite severely.