[users at bb.net] How can I find the server's current time via the api?
Caleb Crome
caleb at signalessence.com
Sat Jan 27 14:08:58 UTC 2018
Yep, that makes sense. If there’s ever a v3, it would be handy to have. :-)
Thanks for the reply .
-caleb
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> On Jan 27, 2018, at 12:47 AM, Pierre Tardy <tardyp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Caleb,
> this API does not exist. The data api is giving timestamps in UTC timezone to avoid all the timezone headackes.
> But in order to synchronize master and another computer, I would recommend to just synchronize them using NTP.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol
> It is usually rather easy to setup that.
>
> Regards
> Pierre
>
>
>> On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 12:03 AM Caleb Crome <caleb at signalessence.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> I'm writing a little app that watches builders and builds. I want
>> to know how long it's been since the build started. However, I can't
>> find anywhere in the v2 api that tells what time the server thinks it
>> is. Of course, I can use my local computer's time to compare against,
>> but if my local computer and the master's clock are set wrong, then
>> the delta will be totally wrong.
>>
>> I'd prefer to get the 'started_at' and 'current_time' both from the
>> master, rather than get 'started_at' from the master, and
>> 'current_time' from my local computer.
>>
>> does that exist in the API? I couldn't find it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Caleb
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