Get Current Local Time

kiwicode

Hey there, I'm about to implement daily quests in my mobile game. In order to do that I need to find out the local time of the mobile user playing the game. I don't want the user to be able to manipulate their local time by changing the device's time and date.

Do you guys know any way to get the current local time? First solution I've found is WorldTimeAPI but I wonder if you know any other way / service? Thanks

TeotiGraphix

kiwicode Just curious:

curl "http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/Europe/London.txt"

How is that not getting local time?

Edit: In my naive take, how can you assure the user even tells you where they are? They could just change settings on their device/machine correct, not just the time?

lokus

TeotiGraphix

Usually such services geolocate based on IP. (Cannot twll for the sample)
But VPNs are also troublesome in this case.

Maybe a combination of local data and geolocated IP timezone can give you a good validation. Could also take historic data into account, to check if someone is cheating.