Python Network Programming

How to do it...

Synchronizing your time is crucial accounting task. While it is not ideal to depend on the time from the internet for mission-critical systems, the NTP time is sufficiently accurate for most of the computing requirements.

Listing 11.5 gives a simple NTP server connection test as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition   -- Chapter - 11 
# This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and  Python 3.5.2. 
# It may run on any other version with/without modifications. import argparse import ntplib from time import ctime def main(address, v): c = ntplib.NTPClient() response = c.request(address, version=v) print("Response Offset: ", response.offset) print("Version: ", response.version) print("Response ...