How to get Parse Server DateTime?

Question

Is there a method in Parse that would let me get the current time that is running on the server? I need to fetch the time from the server, and not depend on the local device's clock.

I'm using C#, Unity SDK. TIA!

Answer 1

You can create a cloud function, written in javascript, which will get the date and return it.

Parse.Cloud.define("getServerTime", function(request, response) {
    var dateToday = new Date();
    response.success(dateToday.toDateString());
});

You will likely want to do some specific formatting of the response so you can sensibly parse it on the client.