How to get time from an NTP server?

Question

I need to get the time for the UK from an NTP server. Found stuff online however any time I try out the code, I always get a return date time, the same as my computer. I changed the time on my computer to confirm this, and I always get that, so it's not coming from the NTP server.

import ntplib
from time import ctime
c = ntplib.NTPClient()
response = c.request('uk.pool.ntp.org', version=3)
response.offset
print (ctime(response.tx_time))
print (ntplib.ref_id_to_text(response.ref_id))

x = ntplib.NTPClient()
print ((x.request('ch.pool.ntp.org').tx_time))

Answer 1

This will work (Python 3):

import socket
import struct
import sys
import time

def RequestTimefromNtp(addr='0.de.pool.ntp.org'):
    REF_TIME_1970 = 2208988800  # Reference time
    client = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
    data = b'\x1b' + 47 * b'\0'
    client.sendto(data, (addr, 123))
    data, address = client.recvfrom(1024)
    if data:
        t = struct.unpack('!12I', data)[10]
        t -= REF_TIME_1970
    return time.ctime(t), t

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(RequestTimefromNtp())