Matt Nordhoff wrote: > Rick wrote: >> Is there any way to get the current time from time.gov using urllib2 or >> something similar? >> >> Does anyone have any examples of doing this? >> >> Thanks! >> Rick King >> Southfield MI > > Why isn't your local system's clock accurate enough?
Bah, I'm better at IRC than e-mail... Anyway: The easiest way to get highly-accurate time is with an "apt-get install ntp" (or your OS's equivalent), and that solves it for all of your applications, not just this one. The time synchronization solutions that exist today are the result of decades of development by experts. If you try to write some solution yourself, it will not be as accurate (though that's okay if it still meets your accuracy requirements), and you're liable to make some mistake* and wind up with a bunch of angry NTP server operators chasing after you with torches and pitchforks. * Such as making excessively-frequent requests, or making more frequent requests if the server appears down, or ignoring NTP Kiss-o'-Death packets. Do not do these things! -- Matt Nordhoff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
