Printing the current time from the internet time server

Many programs rely on the accurate machine time, such as the make command in UNIX. Your machine time may be different and need synchronizing with another time server in your network.

 

Getting ready

In order to synchronize your machine time with one of the internet time servers, you can write a Python client for that. For this, ntplib will be used. Here, the client/server conversation will be done using Network Time Protocol (NTP). If ntplib is not installed on your machine, you can get it from PyPI with the following command using pip or easy_install:

$ pip install ntplib

If pip is not installed on your computer, first install it before executing the preceding command. In Debian-based Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, this can be installed by:

$ sudo apt install python-pip

Note that you will need to install pip for Python 3 separately if you are running it along side Python 2, as typically Python 2 is set as the default version:

$ sudo apt...