A short C# code snippet to get the US Naval Observatory Master Clock Time from:
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl
The snippet displays the raw HTML code with the time infomation and then extracts one specific US time zone.
US Naval Observatory Master Clock Time (C#)
// this C# program gets the US Naval Observatory Master Clock Time
// SnippetCompiler.exe was used to write, compile (uses .NET V2 csc.exe)
// and run this code, a handy little C# utility free from:
// http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/SnippetCompiler/
using System;
using System.Net; // HttpWebRequest
using System.IO; // StringReader
using System.Text; // StringBuilder
class NavyTime
{
static public void Main(string[] args)
{
string navyURL = "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl";
string htmlTimeStr = GetHTML(navyURL);
string strMyDateTime = null;
StringReader strReader = new StringReader(htmlTimeStr);
string line;
// extract the Pacific Time Zone information
while ((line = strReader.ReadLine()) != null)
{
// use the Pacific Time Zone line
int pos = line.LastIndexOf("PDT");
if (pos != -1)
{
//start from pos 4 because of the <BR> tag
strMyDateTime = line.Substring(4, pos - 4);
break;
}
}
Console.WriteLine("Raw HTML_code time information:");
Console.WriteLine(htmlTimeStr);
// sorry, the US Navy does not supply the year
Console.WriteLine("Pacific Time Zone time:");
Console.WriteLine(strMyDateTime);
Console.Write("\nPress Enter to exit ...");
Console.Read(); // console display, wait for key
}
// extract the HTML code with time information
static string GetHTML(string url)
{
StringBuilder sb1 = new StringBuilder();
byte[] buf1 = new byte[4096];
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();
string tempString = null;
int count = 0;
while (0 < (count = resStream.Read(buf1, 0, buf1.Length)))
{
tempString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buf1, 0, count);
sb1.Append(tempString);
}
return sb1.ToString();
}
}
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