Python: How to get current System time of a machine on the network

Question

I understand that I can query system time of my machine like this:

from datetime import datetime datetime.now()

Is there a way to query the system time of another machine on the windows network? eg of \mynetworkpc

Answer 1

You could combine a Python WMI module with the answers to this question: get-remote-pcs-date-time

Answer 2

on a Windows machine there is net time \\<remote-ip address> to get the time of a remote machine but I don't know if it is portable.

>>> import subprocess
>>> subprocess.call(r"net time \\172.21.5.135")
Current time at \\172.21.5.135 is 10/18/2010 12:32 PM

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