setTime

I am trying to set the time on my Espruino loaded esp8266. I am using an http get request and getting a string like "2016-01-25T12:33:20+00:00" back from the server. When I try to set the time it never sets it correctly.

Using...
setTime(Date.parse("2016-01-25T12:33:20+00:00"));

If I do Date.parse("2016-01-25T12:33:20+00:00");, the ms returned is wrong. If this is not a proper format date string then what is?

Moving this to the ESP8266 section...

I'm not sure setTime is implemented on ESP8266, but if it is, it takes the seconds since 1970 - and Date returns the milliseconds.

I got it to work.

var timeS;
require("http").get("http://www.timeapi.org/utc/7+hours+ago?\\s", function(res) {
  res.on('data', function(data) {
    console.log("HTTP> "+data);
    timeS=Number(data);
  });
  res.on('close', function(data) {
    console.log("Connection closed");
    setTime(timeS);
  });
});

Neat!

I have some things here that do this, and it works fine for me:

        require("http").get("http://192.168.1.101", function(res) {
          console.log("Response: ",res);
          if ("Date" in res.headers) {
            console.log("Got Date ",res.headers.Date); 
            var date = new Date(res.headers.Date);
            var d = date.getTime();
            if (date.getMonth()>2/*Mar*/ && date.getMonth()<=9/*Oct*/)
              d += 1000*3600; // 1 hour daylight saving
            if (d>0) setTime(d/1000);
            else console.log("Unable to parse date!");
          }
        });

It just pulls the date field right off the HTTP headers, so all you need is a standard HTTP server.

No local server in my home. Plan to create a http server that has current time with weather info etc. Will see if it runs out of memory before I get it done.

Just to add that literally any HTTP server will do - including google.com, or in some cases even your broadband router (if it keeps an accurate date).

@Gordon capitalize your last line, it's simply brilliant :)

Altho not exactly correct if you are other timezone than the UK, and want to get your local time.