Re: Convert NTP timestamp from NTP packet to System time and date format

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Date	Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:03:30 +0100
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:34:04 +0500
Sadia Bashir wrote:

> Hello everyone;
> 
> I want to write NTP client which sends and receives NTP packet to NTP
> server and should read the value from one of the four offsets and convert
> it to user readable local or GMT time format, I specifically want to know
> which offsets should I read in order to get correct timestamp from the
> packet.
> Any suggestion or help will be appreciated.

Maybe this lib is of interest to you:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ntplib/

It does all the NTP stuff for you. If you want to implement that stuff
by yourself just take a look at the code of ntplib, it should explain
what you want.

Regards,
Johannes

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Re: Convert NTP timestamp from NTP packet to System time and date format Johannes Findeisen <mailman@hanez.org> - 2014-01-30 16:03 +0100

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