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A python script to update system time in Windows by attempting to fetch time from multiple NTP servers from a defined list.
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import socket | |
import struct | |
import sys | |
import time | |
import datetime | |
import win32api | |
# List of servers in order of attempt of fetching | |
server_list = ['ntp.iitb.ac.in', 'time.nist.gov', 'time.windows.com', 'pool.ntp.org'] | |
''' | |
Returns the epoch time fetched from the NTP server passed as argument. | |
Returns none if the request is timed out (5 seconds). | |
''' | |
def gettime_ntp(addr='time.nist.gov'): | |
# http://code.activestate.com/recipes/117211-simple-very-sntp-client/ | |
TIME1970 = 2208988800 # Thanks to F.Lundh | |
client = socket.socket( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM ) | |
data = '\x1b' + 47 * '\0' | |
try: | |
# Timing out the connection after 5 seconds, if no response received | |
client.settimeout(5.0) | |
client.sendto( data, (addr, 123)) | |
data, address = client.recvfrom( 1024 ) | |
if data: | |
epoch_time = struct.unpack( '!12I', data )[10] | |
epoch_time -= TIME1970 | |
return epoch_time | |
except socket.timeout: | |
return None | |
if __name__ == "__main__": | |
# Iterates over every server in the list until it finds time from any one. | |
for server in server_list: | |
epoch_time = gettime_ntp(server) | |
if epoch_time is not None: | |
# SetSystemTime takes time as argument in UTC time. UTC time is obtained using utcfromtimestamp() | |
utcTime = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(epoch_time) | |
win32api.SetSystemTime(utcTime.year, utcTime.month, utcTime.weekday(), utcTime.day, utcTime.hour, utcTime.minute, utcTime.second, 0) | |
# Local time is obtained using fromtimestamp() | |
localTime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(epoch_time) | |
print("Time updated to: " + localTime.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") + " from " + server) | |
break | |
else: | |
print("Could not find time from " + server) |
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it works for my script(utf-8) by replace line 19 with
data = bytes('\x1b' + 47 * '\0','utf-8')
you also need to run as admin to change the time,