rsntp

An RFC 4330 compliant Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) client library for Rust.

rsntp provides both a synchronous (blocking) and an (optional) asynchronous API which allows synchronization with SNTPv4 servers. Time and date handling is based on the chrono crate.

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
rsntp = "0.2"

Obtain the current local time with the blocking API:

use rsntp::SntpClient;
use chrono::{DateTime, Local};

let client = SntpClient::new("pool.ntp.org").unwrap();
let result = client.synchronize().unwrap();

let local_time: DateTime<Local> = DateTime::from(result.datetime());
println!("Current time is: {}", local_time);

And a function which uses the asynchronous API to obtain local time:

use rsntp::AsyncSntpClient;
use chrono::{DateTime, Local};

async fn local_time() -> DateTime<Local> {
  let client = AsyncSntpClient::new("pool.ntp.org");
  let result = client.synchronize().await.unwrap();

  DateTime::from(result.datetime())
}

Disabling asynchronous API

The asynchronous API is compiled in by default but you can optionally disable it. This removes dependency to tokio which reduces crate dependencies significantly.

[dependencies]
rsntp = { version = "0.2", default-features = false }