getTime - Response Message Sample

This section provides a response message sample of getTime Web service.

The response of getTime Web service can be delivered in "xml", "json" or "php" message format. In the response, the current time from a Yahoo server will be included in Unix timestamp or standard milliseconds time format.

After running the "Request 1" sample in the previous tutorial, look at the response window. You will see the response message of "getTime" in XML format returned with the current time:

<Result
   xsi:schemaLocation="urn:yahoo:developer 
   http://developer.yahooapis.com/TimeService/V1/GetTimeResponse.xsd" 
   type="web" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
   xmlns="urn:yahoo:developer">
   <Timestamp>1311478740</Timestamp>
</Result>
<!--p5.ydn.re1.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Sat Jul 23 20:39:00 PDT 2011-->

The result looks good. The timestamp number returned, 1311478740, is the number of seconds passed since Jan 1, 1970.

Click the "Raw" vertical tab. You will see the entire HTTP response including header lines:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat Jul 23 20:39:00 PDT
P3P: policyref="http://info.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP CO..."
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Encoding: gzip
Cache-Control: private

(response XML...)

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getTime - Response Message Sample

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