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By Abhishek Ghosh March 11, 2019 9:46 am Updated on March 11, 2019

ESP32 Arduino : Get Time & Date From NTP Server

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Here is ESP32 Arduino How to Get Time & Date From NTP Server and Print it. This is upgrade of the projects where an event requires a timestamp, for example think of LED turning on after push button click or HTTP POST on button click. These events better to have a timestamp.

Of course most robust way of adding timestamp using a real time clock (RTC) module with ESP32. However, RTC modules will need a display and buttons to set the correct time. To just get a timestamp, total thing will get more complicated. Obviously, from Arduino UNO to ESP32 has internal clock which are actually usable for ordinary works. But when we are already connected to the internet (we means ESP32), then fetching the time will give approximate closer value of event, such as button press. In real life, button press and fetching the time will have few seconds to few minutes time difference. But that is closest to the actual event for projects such as sending email or SMS after an event.

ESP32 Arduino Get Time Date From NTP Server

NTP stands for Network Time Protocol, a standard Internet Protocol (IP) for synchronizing the computer/server to some reference over a network. So the protocol can be used to synchronize all the networked devices to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) within 50 milliseconds over the public Internet.

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There are libaries for Arduino to have NTP client in easy way :

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https://github.com/taranais/NTPClient/

I beleive that this repository (and code) is far more useful for ESP32 :

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https://github.com/G6EJD/ESP32-Time-Services-and-SETENV-variable/blob/master/ESP32_Time_and_SETENV.ino

This is sample code to print India’s local time :

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#include <WiFi.h>
#include "time.h"
String time_str;
const char* ssid     = "yourSSID";
const char* password = "yourPASSWORD";
 
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  Start_WiFi(ssid,password);
  configTime(0, 0, "pool.ntp.org");
}
 
void loop() {
  setenv("TZ", "GMT0BST,M3.5.0/01,M10.5.0/02",1); // You must include '0' after first designator e.g. GMT0GMT-1, ',1' is true or ON
 
  // Set timezone to Indian Standard Time
  setenv("TZ", "UTC-05:30", 1);
  Serial.println("  INDIAN Time = "+printLocalTime());
// add a delay
  delay(2000);
}
 
String printLocalTime(){
  struct tm timeinfo;
  if(!getLocalTime(&timeinfo)){
    Serial.println("Failed to obtain time");
    return "Time Error";
  }
  //See http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ctime/strftime/
  char output[80];
  strftime(output, 80, "%d-%b-%y, %H:%M:%S", &timeinfo);
  time_str = String(output);
  return String(output);
}
 
int Start_WiFi(const char* ssid, const char* password){
int connAttempts = 0;
Serial.println("\r\nConnecting to: "+String(ssid));
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED ) {
   delay(500);
   Serial.print(".");
   if(connAttempts > 20) return -5;
   connAttempts++;
}
return 1;
}

So the printLocalTime() can be used in other part of code. Here is another style of coding :

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#include <WiFi.h>
#include "time.h"
 
const char* ssid       = "YOUR_SSID";
const char* password   = "YOUR_PASS";
 
const char* ntpServer = "pool.ntp.org";
const long  gmtOffset_sec = 3600;
const int   daylightOffset_sec = 3600;
 
void printLocalTime()
{
  struct tm timeinfo;
  if(!getLocalTime(&timeinfo)){
    Serial.println("Failed to obtain time");
    return;
  }
  Serial.println(&timeinfo, "%A, %B %d %Y %H:%M:%S");
}
 
void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(115200);
  
  //connect to WiFi
  Serial.printf("Connecting to %s ", ssid);
  WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
      delay(500);
      Serial.print(".");
  }
  Serial.println(" CONNECTED");
  
  //init and get the time
  configTime(gmtOffset_sec, daylightOffset_sec, ntpServer);
  printLocalTime();
 
  //disconnect WiFi as it's no longer needed
  WiFi.disconnect(true);
  WiFi.mode(WIFI_OFF);
}
 
void loop()
{
  delay(1000);
  printLocalTime();
}

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Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "ESP32 Arduino : Get Time & Date From NTP Server," in The Customize Windows, March 11, 2019, January 19, 2021, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2019/03/esp32-arduino-get-time-date-ntp-server/.

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