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Asked: 2026-05-25T00:52:26+00:00

Is there a way to get the date & time from the network provider

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Is there a way to get the date & time from the network provider programmatically? Possibly in the same manner in which we get the location from the network provider.

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    You may need to use a custom NITZ or NTP Library

    So just a heads up that Android uses NITZ events provided by a carrier
    to properly set the system date and time. Android also falls-back to
    network NTP automatically when no cellular network is available.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NITZ

    The time provided by currentTimeMillis() will typically be the best
    available time, and it’s what all of the services on the device use,
    like Calendar and Alarm Clock.

    However

    However the NTP API isn’t somewhere that Java code can access, which
    means we’re back to using an existing Java NTP/SNTP client library if
    we want an accurate time regardless of whether we are on a network
    that is NITZ capable.

    Java NTP library

    You can find a naive implementation of a Java NTP Library from

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