ntp client in python

Question

I've written a ntp client in python to query a time server and display the time and the program executes but does not give me any results. I'm using python's 2.7.3 integrated development environment and my OS is Windows 7. Here is the code:

# File: Ntpclient.py
from socket import AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM
import sys
import socket
import struct, time

# # Set the socket parameters 

host = "pool.ntp.org"
port = 123
buf = 1024
address = (host,port)
msg = 'time'


# reference time (in seconds since 1900-01-01 00:00:00)
TIME1970 = 2208988800L # 1970-01-01 00:00:00

# connect to server
client = socket.socket( AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM)
client.sendto(msg, address)
msg, address = client.recvfrom( buf )

t = struct.unpack( "!12I", data )[10]
t -= TIME1970
print "\tTime=%s" % time.ctime(t)

Answer 1

Use ntplib:

The following should work on both Python 2 and 3:

import ntplib
from time import ctime
c = ntplib.NTPClient()
response = c.request('pool.ntp.org')
print(ctime(response.tx_time))

Output:

Fri Jul 28 01:30:53 2017