标签： NTP

An IPv6 Enabled NTP Client for Windows in Python

Python NTP library (ntplib) offers a simple interface to query NTP servers from Python. But it does not support IPv6 NTP servers. I wrote a patch for ntplib to support IPv6 connections. You can download the patch file here and the patched library here.

The code bellow is a simple IPv6 enabled NTP client (ntpdate.py) in Python for Windows, using the patched ntplib. It doesn't (and won't) support Linux because the official NTP release offers IPv6 support on that platform.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# ntpdate.py - set the date and time via NTP
# An IPv6 enabled ntp client, for Windows ONLY.

import ntplib, time
from os import system
from sys import argv

def usage():
  print '''Usage: ntpdate.py  [-qh] server
Example:
  ntpdate.py 210.72.145.44      # IPv4
  ntpdate.py ntp6.remco.org     # IPv6
Options:

  -q     Query only - don't set the clock.
  -h     Print this message.

IPv6 NTP Server List:
  ntp6.remco.org               [2001:888:1031::2]
  ntp6.space.net               [2001:608:0:dff::2]
  time.buptnet.edu.cn          [2001:da8:202:10::60]
  time.join.uni-muenster.de    [2001:638:500:717:2e0:4bff:fe04:bc5f]
  ntp.sixxs.net                [2001:1291:2::b]
  ntp.eu.sixxs.net             [2001:808::66]
  ntp.us.sixxs.net             [2001:1291:2::b]
  ntp.rhrk.uni-kl.de           [2001:638:208:9::116]
  ntp.ipv6.uni-leipzig.de      [2001:638:902:1::10]
  ntp.hexago.com               [2001:5c0:0:2::25]
  ntp1.bit.nl                  [2001:7b8:3:2c::123]

Report bugs to http://solrex.org.'''
  sys.exit()

def main():
  ntp_svr = ''
  query = False

  for a in argv[1:]:
    if a == '-q':
      query = True
    elif a == '-h':
      usage()
    else:
      ntp_svr = a
  if ntp_svr == '':
    usage()

  c = ntplib.NTPClient()
  res = c.request(ntp_svr, version=3)
  t_epoch = res.offset + res.delay + time.time()
  t = time.localtime(t_epoch)
  centi_sec = t_epoch%1 * 100
  time_str = time.strftime('%H:%M:%S', t)
  if not query:
    system('time %s.%2.0f' % (time_str, centi_sec))
    date_str = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d', t)
    system('date %s' % date_str)
  if query:
    print 'server %s, stratum %d, offset %f, delay %f' % (
           ntp_svr, res.stratum, res.offset, res.delay)
  print '%s %s ntpdate.py: time server %s offset %f sec' % (
         time.strftime('%d %b', t), time_str, ntp_svr, res.offset)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

一个 Windows 对时小工具

由于在 CERNET 内，我经常需要用代理上网，没办法直连到 NTP 服务器，因此不能使用 Windows 时间服务对时。偶尔维修电脑或者不小心调整错时间，再加上电脑时钟本身就有一定的漂移，对时就变成了件麻烦的事情。

手动调时也没个参照，误差往往比较大。IPv6 网络上存在一些 NTP 服务器，Linux 下有 ntpdate 是支持 IPv6 NTP 服务器的，但是我搜索了半天，才在一篇文章上看到有人评论说 Windows 下只有一款 NTP 客户端支持 IPv6，还是收费软件——可他也没给出名字。

无奈之下想到 Python 的 httplib 是支持 IPv6 连接的，于是我就仿照 htpdate 写了一个利用 Google 的 IPv6 Web 服务器进行对时的 Python 小工具 htpdate.py。虽然误差比 NTP 大不少，但是还是在可接受范围内（不到 1 秒），而且比较方便，连日期也一块更新了。下面是代码，比较粗糙。

#!/usr/bin/env python
import httplib, time
from os import system

def main():
  conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('google.com')
  time.clock()
  conn.request('HEAD', '')
  t_rtt = time.clock()
  res_time = conn.getresponse().getheader('date')
  t = time.localtime(time.mktime(time.strptime(res_time,
                                 '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z')) - time.timezone)
  time_str = time.strftime('%H:%M:%S', t)
  local_time = time.asctime()
  t_exe = time.clock()
  centi_sec = (t_exe - t_rtt/2)*100
  if centi_sec > 99:
    centi_sec = 99
  system('time %s.%2.0f' % (time_str, centi_sec))
  date_str = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d', t)
  system('date %s' % date_str)
  print 'LOCAL  TIME: ' + local_time
  print 'SERVER TIME: ' + time.asctime(t)
  print 'LOCAL  TIME: ' + time.asctime()
  if (t_exe - t_rtt/2) >= 1:
    print 'Round trip time is too long. Time error might be larger than 1 sec.'

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()