VBScript

Get Current Date/Time from NIST Time Server

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Demonstrates using Chilkat Socket to connect to an NIST time server and (using the old Time Protocol (RFC 868)), will read the current GMT time.

Note: This is not necessarily the very best means for getting the current date/time. The most commonly used time protocol is the Network Time Protocol (RFC-1305).

VBScript

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set socket = CreateObject("Chilkat.Socket")

' Connect to an NIST time server and read the current date/time
maxWaitMs = 4000
useTls = 0
success = socket.Connect("time-c.nist.gov",37,useTls,maxWaitMs)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' The time server will send a big-endian 32-bit integer representing
' the number of seconds since since 00:00 (midnight) 1 January 1900 GMT.
' The ReceiveInt32 method will receive a 4-byte integer, but returns
' 1 or 0 to indicate success.  If successful, the integer
' is obtained via the ReceivedInt property.
bigEndian = 1
success = socket.ReceiveInt32(bigEndian)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(socket.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

set dt = CreateObject("Chilkat.CkDateTime")
success = dt.SetFromNtpTime(socket.ReceivedInt)

' Show the current local date/time
bLocalTime = 1
outFile.WriteLine("Current local date/time: " & dt.GetAsRfc822(bLocalTime))

maxWaitMs = 10
success = socket.Close(maxWaitMs)

outFile.Close