how extract real time form time.gov in python?

Question

I want to show real time in my program from time.gov. I saw ntplib module and this example:

import ntplib
from time import ctime
c = ntplib.NTPClient()
response = c.request('europe.pool.ntp.org', version=3)
ctime(response.tx_time)

but I can't use time.gov instead of 'europe.pool.ntp.org' because time.gov is not a ntp server. Also I saw some java script code in page source. is there a way to extract real time from time.gov in python with or without ntplib?

Answer 1

Use urllib to retrieve

http://time.gov/actualtime.cgi

that returns something like this:

<timestamp time="1433396367767836" delay="0"/>

Looks like microseconds

>>> time.ctime(1433396367.767836)
'Thu Jun  4 15:39:27 2015'