programmatically how to get actual time in android if i changed the device time

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can Anybody please give me exact solution of this problem programmaticaly i.e. when i change the device time it's taking device time but i want that it should take actual time from internet. i am using this code...

  SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
        String date = dateFormat.format(new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));

i tried this also

final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    year = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    day = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
    hour = c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY);
    minute = c.get(Calendar.MINUTE);

    int myfrmt =(c.get(Calendar.YEAR) + c.get(Calendar.MONTH) + c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) + c.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)+ c.get(Calendar.MINUTE));
    String satyam=Integer.toString(myfrmt);`

but in both the case i got device time .... not real time

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 31 '14 at 11:51

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Have you tried this:

LocationManager locMan = (LocationManager) activity.getSystemService(activity.LOCATION_SERVICE);
long time = locMan.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER).getTime();

This will provide the time through your network provider.

edited Mar 31 '14 at 11:51

demongolem

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answered Mar 31 '14 at 10:49

Chomu

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gives device time – Shashwat Gupta May 31 '17 at 12:29
yeah it gives device time – Ashish Choudhary Dec 21 '20 at 05:40
Actually it doesn't if you have location service turned on. It will take some time, but it will give you the actual time without an internet. – Dev4Life Apr 14 '22 at 04:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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Just have a look at this. The thread has multiple answers which are worth checking out. I would recommend the "correct" answer although you have to include a library for this. If you use the first answer please also notice the comments concerning server choice.

Hope it helps.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

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answered Mar 31 '14 at 10:24

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 31 '14 at 10:27

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I would suggest making a simple AJAX call to

http://www.timeapi.org/utc/now

A handy web service which returns current GMT time that you could manipulate.

answered Mar 31 '14 at 10:27

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programmatically how to get actual time in android if i changed the device time

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