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8 * $Id: synctime.c,v 1.1.1.1 2008-09-23 16:32:05 hoffman Exp $
10 * This example code only builds as-is on Windows.
12 * While Unix/Linux user, you do not need this software.
13 * You can achieve the same result as synctime using curl, awk and date.
14 * Set proxy as according to your network, but beware of proxy Cache-Control.
16 * To set your system clock, root access is required.
17 * # date -s "`curl -sI http://nist.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0 \
18 * | awk -F': ' '/Date: / {print $2}'`"
20 * To view remote webserver date and time.
21 * $ curl -sI http://nist.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0 \
22 * | awk -F': ' '/Date: / {print $2}'
24 * Synchronising your computer clock via Internet time server usually relies
25 * on DAYTIME, TIME, or NTP protocols. These protocols provide good accurate
26 * time synchronisation but it does not work very well through a
27 * firewall/proxy. Some adjustment has to be made to the firewall/proxy for
28 * these protocols to work properly.
30 * There is an indirect method. Since most webserver provide server time in
31 * their HTTP header, therefore you could synchronise your computer clock
32 * using HTTP protocol which has no problem with firewall/proxy.
34 * For this software to work, you should take note of these items.
35 * 1. Your firewall/proxy must allow your computer to surf internet.
36 * 2. Webserver system time must in sync with the NTP time server,
37 * or at least provide an accurate time keeping.
38 * 3. Webserver HTTP header does not provide the milliseconds units,
39 * so there is no way to get very accurate time.
40 * 4. This software could only provide an accuracy of +- a few seconds,
41 * as Round-Trip delay time is not taken into consideration.
42 * Compensation of network, firewall/proxy delay cannot be simply divide
43 * the Round-Trip delay time by half.
44 * 5. Win32 SetSystemTime() API will set your computer clock according to
45 * GMT/UTC time. Therefore your computer timezone must be properly set.
46 * 6. Webserver data should not be cached by the proxy server. Some
47 * webserver provide Cache-Control to prevent caching.
50 * http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm
51 * http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/service/firewall.htm
54 * This software will synchronise your computer clock only when you issue
55 * it with --synctime. By default, it only display the webserver's clock.
57 * Written by: Frank (contributed to libcurl)
59 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
60 * EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY
61 * WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
63 * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OF THIS SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR
64 * ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND,
65 * OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
66 * WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF
67 * LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE
77 #include <curl/curl.h>
80 #define MAX_STRING 256
81 #define MAX_STRING1 MAX_STRING+1
85 char http_proxy
[MAX_STRING1
];
86 char proxy_user
[MAX_STRING1
];
87 char timeserver
[MAX_STRING1
];
90 const char DefaultTimeServer
[4][MAX_STRING1
] =
92 "http://nist.time.gov/timezone.cgi?UTC/s/0",
93 "http://www.google.com/",
94 "http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx",
95 "http://www.worldtime.com/cgi-bin/wt.cgi"
98 const char *DayStr
[] = {"Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"};
99 const char *MthStr
[] = {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
100 "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"};
105 SYSTEMTIME LOCALTime
;
107 #define HTTP_COMMAND_HEAD 0
108 #define HTTP_COMMAND_GET 1
111 size_t SyncTime_CURL_WriteOutput(void *ptr
, size_t size
, size_t nmemb
,
114 fwrite(ptr
, size
, nmemb
, stream
);
118 size_t SyncTime_CURL_WriteHeader(void *ptr
, size_t size
, size_t nmemb
,
122 char TmpStr1
[26], TmpStr2
[26];
124 if (ShowAllHeader
== 1)
125 fprintf(stderr
, "%s", (char *)(ptr
));
127 if (strncmp((char *)(ptr
), "Date:", 5) == 0) {
128 if (ShowAllHeader
== 0)
129 fprintf(stderr
, "HTTP Server. %s", (char *)(ptr
));
131 if (AutoSyncTime
== 1) {
134 if (strlen((char *)(ptr
)) > 50) /* Can prevent buffer overflow to
138 RetVal
= sscanf ((char *)(ptr
), "Date: %s %d %s %d %d:%d:%d",
139 TmpStr1
, &SYSTime
.wDay
, TmpStr2
, &SYSTime
.wYear
,
140 &SYSTime
.wHour
, &SYSTime
.wMinute
, &SYSTime
.wSecond
);
144 SYSTime
.wMilliseconds
= 500; /* adjust to midpoint, 0.5 sec */
145 for (i
=0; i
<12; i
++) {
146 if (strcmp(MthStr
[i
], TmpStr2
) == 0) {
147 SYSTime
.wMonth
= i
+1;
151 AutoSyncTime
= 3; /* Computer clock will be adjusted */
154 AutoSyncTime
= 0; /* Error in sscanf() fields conversion */
160 if (strncmp((char *)(ptr
), "X-Cache: HIT", 12) == 0) {
161 fprintf(stderr
, "ERROR: HTTP Server data is cached."
162 " Server Date is no longer valid.\n");
168 void SyncTime_CURL_Init(CURL
*curl
, char *proxy_port
,
169 char *proxy_user_password
)
171 if (strlen(proxy_port
) > 0)
172 curl_easy_setopt(curl
, CURLOPT_PROXY
, proxy_port
);
174 if (strlen(proxy_user_password
) > 0)
175 curl_easy_setopt(curl
, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD
, proxy_user_password
);
177 /* Trick Webserver by claiming that you are using Microsoft WinXP SP2, IE6 */
178 curl_easy_setopt(curl
, CURLOPT_USERAGENT
,
179 "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)");
180 curl_easy_setopt(curl
, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION
, *SyncTime_CURL_WriteOutput
);
181 curl_easy_setopt(curl
, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION
, *SyncTime_CURL_WriteHeader
);
184 int SyncTime_CURL_Fetch(CURL
*curl
, char *URL_Str
, char *OutFileName
,
191 if (HttpGetBody
== HTTP_COMMAND_HEAD
)
192 curl_easy_setopt(curl
, CURLOPT_NOBODY
, 1L);
194 outfile
= fopen(OutFileName
, "wb");
195 curl_easy_setopt(curl
, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA
, outfile
);
198 curl_easy_setopt(curl
, CURLOPT_URL
, URL_Str
);
199 res
= curl_easy_perform(curl
);
202 return res
; /* (CURLE_OK) */
207 fprintf(stderr
, "SYNCTIME: Synchronising computer clock with time server"
208 " using HTTP protocol.\n");
209 fprintf(stderr
, "Usage : SYNCTIME [Option]\n");
210 fprintf(stderr
, "Options :\n");
211 fprintf(stderr
, " --server=WEBSERVER Use this time server instead"
213 fprintf(stderr
, " --showall Show all HTTP header.\n");
214 fprintf(stderr
, " --synctime Synchronising computer clock"
215 " with time server.\n");
216 fprintf(stderr
, " --proxy-user=USER[:PASS] Set proxy username and"
218 fprintf(stderr
, " --proxy=HOST[:PORT] Use HTTP proxy on given"
220 fprintf(stderr
, " --help Print this help.\n");
221 fprintf(stderr
, "\n");
225 int conf_init(conf_t
*conf
)
229 *conf
->http_proxy
= 0;
230 for (i
=0; i
<MAX_STRING1
; i
++)
231 conf
->proxy_user
[i
] = 0; /* Clean up password from memory */
232 *conf
->timeserver
= 0;
236 int main(int argc
, char *argv
[])
246 double tzonediffFloat
;
253 ShowAllHeader
= 0; /* Do not show HTTP Header */
254 AutoSyncTime
= 0; /* Do not synchronise computer clock */
255 RetValue
= 0; /* Successful Exit */
259 while (OptionIndex
< argc
) {
260 if (strncmp(argv
[OptionIndex
], "--server=", 9) == 0)
261 snprintf(conf
->timeserver
, MAX_STRING
, "%s", &argv
[OptionIndex
][9]);
263 if (strcmp(argv
[OptionIndex
], "--showall") == 0)
266 if (strcmp(argv
[OptionIndex
], "--synctime") == 0)
269 if (strncmp(argv
[OptionIndex
], "--proxy-user=", 13) == 0)
270 snprintf(conf
->proxy_user
, MAX_STRING
, "%s", &argv
[OptionIndex
][13]);
272 if (strncmp(argv
[OptionIndex
], "--proxy=", 8) == 0)
273 snprintf(conf
->http_proxy
, MAX_STRING
, "%s", &argv
[OptionIndex
][8]);
275 if ((strcmp(argv
[OptionIndex
], "--help") == 0) ||
276 (strcmp(argv
[OptionIndex
], "/?") == 0)) {
284 if (*conf
->timeserver
== 0) /* Use default server for time information */
285 snprintf(conf
->timeserver
, MAX_STRING
, "%s", DefaultTimeServer
[0]);
287 /* Init CURL before usage */
288 curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL
);
289 curl
= curl_easy_init();
291 SyncTime_CURL_Init(curl
, conf
->http_proxy
, conf
->proxy_user
);
293 /* Calculating time diff between GMT and localtime */
296 tt_local
= mktime(lt
);
298 tt_gmt
= mktime(gmt
);
299 tzonediffFloat
= difftime(tt_local
, tt_gmt
);
300 tzonediffWord
= (int)(tzonediffFloat
/3600.0);
302 if ((double)(tzonediffWord
* 3600) == tzonediffFloat
)
303 snprintf(tzoneBuf
, 15, "%+03d'00'", tzonediffWord
);
305 snprintf(tzoneBuf
, 15, "%+03d'30'", tzonediffWord
);
307 /* Get current system time and local time */
308 GetSystemTime(&SYSTime
);
309 GetLocalTime(&LOCALTime
);
310 snprintf(timeBuf
, 60, "%s, %02d %s %04d %02d:%02d:%02d.%03d, ",
311 DayStr
[LOCALTime
.wDayOfWeek
], LOCALTime
.wDay
,
312 MthStr
[LOCALTime
.wMonth
-1], LOCALTime
.wYear
,
313 LOCALTime
.wHour
, LOCALTime
.wMinute
, LOCALTime
.wSecond
,
314 LOCALTime
.wMilliseconds
);
316 fprintf(stderr
, "Fetch: %s\n\n", conf
->timeserver
);
317 fprintf(stderr
, "Before HTTP. Date: %s%s\n\n", timeBuf
, tzoneBuf
);
319 /* HTTP HEAD command to the Webserver */
320 SyncTime_CURL_Fetch(curl
, conf
->timeserver
, "index.htm",
323 GetLocalTime(&LOCALTime
);
324 snprintf(timeBuf
, 60, "%s, %02d %s %04d %02d:%02d:%02d.%03d, ",
325 DayStr
[LOCALTime
.wDayOfWeek
], LOCALTime
.wDay
,
326 MthStr
[LOCALTime
.wMonth
-1], LOCALTime
.wYear
,
327 LOCALTime
.wHour
, LOCALTime
.wMinute
, LOCALTime
.wSecond
,
328 LOCALTime
.wMilliseconds
);
329 fprintf(stderr
, "\nAfter HTTP. Date: %s%s\n", timeBuf
, tzoneBuf
);
331 if (AutoSyncTime
== 3) {
332 /* Synchronising computer clock */
333 if (!SetSystemTime(&SYSTime
)) { /* Set system time */
334 fprintf(stderr
, "ERROR: Unable to set system time.\n");
338 /* Successfully re-adjusted computer clock */
339 GetLocalTime(&LOCALTime
);
340 snprintf(timeBuf
, 60, "%s, %02d %s %04d %02d:%02d:%02d.%03d, ",
341 DayStr
[LOCALTime
.wDayOfWeek
], LOCALTime
.wDay
,
342 MthStr
[LOCALTime
.wMonth
-1], LOCALTime
.wYear
,
343 LOCALTime
.wHour
, LOCALTime
.wMinute
, LOCALTime
.wSecond
,
344 LOCALTime
.wMilliseconds
);
345 fprintf(stderr
, "\nNew System's Date: %s%s\n", timeBuf
, tzoneBuf
);
349 /* Cleanup before exit */
351 curl_easy_cleanup(curl
);