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A python script to update time in Windows using HTTPS, when NTP is not working. Works on scraping duration since epoch time from www.unixtimestamp.com and uses win32api (earlier pywin32) to update the system time. Needs to be run with administrator permissions.
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import requests | |
import datetime | |
import win32api | |
page = requests.get('https://www.unixtimestamp.com/', headers={'Cache-Control': 'no-cache'}) | |
text = page.text | |
for line in text.split("\n"): | |
match_text = "<h3 class=\"text-danger\">" | |
suffix = " <small>seconds since Jan 01 1970. (UTC)</small></h3>" | |
if match_text in line: | |
line = line.replace('<',' ').replace('>',' ') | |
epoch_time = [int(s) for s in line.split() if s.isdigit()][0] | |
break | |
utcTime = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(epoch_time) | |
try: | |
# SetSystemTime takes time as argument in UTC time | |
win32api.SetSystemTime(utcTime.year, utcTime.month, utcTime.weekday(), utcTime.day, utcTime.hour, utcTime.minute, utcTime.second, 0) | |
localTime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(epoch_time) | |
print("Time updated to: " + localTime.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")) | |
except: | |
print("Could not update time") |
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