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

http://worldclockapi.com/ is helpful.

Try this: http://worldclockapi.com/api/json/est/now

And you may want to use the JSONP version or some sort of CORS proxy.