HOW TO GET TIME FROM THE INTERNET WITH MAXSCRIPT

By alexnguyen · 2017-07-04

Description

Hello my name is Nam , i come from Viet Nam , i am a newbie in maxscript
I create some scripts and want create a limitation , i seach internet and found a solution write by C#
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6435099/how-to-get-datetime-from-the…
Can i use it in maxscript ? please help me , thank you very much

Comments (4)

alexnguyen · 2017-07-05

thank but i can use it , maybe i can not use port 13 , can you help me ?

pixamoon · 2017-07-06

try this time from google:


try(
	
	local response = ((dotnetClass "System.Net.WebRequest").Create "http://www.google.com").GetResponse()

	local utcDateTimeString = response.Headers.get_Item "date"
	
	response.dispose()
	
	print utcDateTimeString
	print (substring utcDateTimeString 6 20)
	
)catch()

Best,
Pixamoon

thank you very much

alexnguyen · 2017-07-07

i can do it :)

pixamoon · 2017-07-05

I found this by you:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=8320838

try this modified code


(
   local client = dotnetObject "System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient" "time.nist.gov" 13
   client.SendTimeout = 2000
   local streamReader = dotnetObject "System.IO.StreamReader" (client.GetStream())
   local response = streamReader.ReadToEnd asDotnetObject:true
   
   local utcDateTimeString = response.Substring 7 17 asDotNetObject:true
   local localDateTime = (dotnetClass "System.DateTime").ParseExact utcDateTimeString "yy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" (dotnetClass "System.Globalization.CultureInfo").InvariantCulture (dotnetClass "System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles").AssumeUniversal
      
   streamReader.Dispose()
   print (localDateTime.ToString())
)

It looks like working here

But I'm not sure if it's a good solution, what if there is no internet ?