Is there a time server that offers an API that i can grab the current eastern time from?

Question

Ok we have a countdown on our site and I need to do an api call to get the current eastern time. I have this link which is the time I need. Is there any way or any webservice th

Answer 1

I use http://www.timeapi.org/ to get the current time. It can return the date/time in a variety of formats and its free and easy to use. Obviously, the server time is quite easy to get but sometimes that is not an option, which is why I have used this API on a couple occasions. You can use the pure JavaScript method that is listed on their site, but I opted for a jQuery AJAX call :

$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: 'http://www.timeapi.org/utc/now.json',
    dataType: "jsonp",
    context: this
}).done(function(data) {
    // do stuff
})
.fail(function(){
    throw new Error('timeAPI ajax called failed!');
});