Get Real Time – Not Device Set Time in android

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You need to use the NTP (Network Time Protocol) protocol:

Here is some code I found somewhere else… and I am using it. This uses the Apache Commons library, which can be installed using Gradle (adding a dependency on commons-net:commons-net:3.6)

If you need a list of time servers, check: http://tf.nist.gov/service/time-servers.html

Here is some Java Code for you to use:

public class TimeLookup {
    public static final String TIME_SERVER = "time-a.nist.gov";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        NTPUDPClient timeClient = new NTPUDPClient();
        InetAddress inetAddress = InetAddress.getByName(TIME_SERVER);
        TimeInfo timeInfo = timeClient.getTime(inetAddress);
        long returnTime = timeInfo.getReturnTime();
        Date time = new Date(returnTime);
        System.out.println("Time from " + TIME_SERVER + ": " + time);
    }

}

Note the Android code must run on the background thread and include gradle dependency:

implementation 'commons-net:commons-net:3.6'

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