I am messing around with an ESP8266 and want the shortest way of getting the time from the internet and displaying it.
This is the shortest working example that I can find but it prints the time and date as :
Sat Jan 15 10:08:00 2022
I want to extract the hour(); and minute(); etc but I cant find a way. If I try Serial.print(hour); like I can when using an RTC sketch for example it says that 'hour is not declared in this scope.
I thought that the time.h library allowed (hour) etc?
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <time.h>
const char* ssid = "*****";
const char* password = "*****";
const char* ntpServer = "pool.ntp.org";
const long gmtOffset_sec = 0; //Replace with your GMT offset (seconds)
const int daylightOffset_sec = 0; //Replace with your daylight offset (seconds)
void setup()
{
Serial.begin(115200);
Serial.printf("Connecting to %s ", ssid);
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
delay(500);
Serial.print(".");
}
Serial.println("CONNECTED to WIFI");
//init and get the time
configTime(gmtOffset_sec, daylightOffset_sec, ntpServer);
printLocalTime();
//disconnect WiFi as it's no longer needed
WiFi.disconnect(true);
WiFi.mode(WIFI_OFF);
}
void loop()
{
delay(1000);
printLocalTime();
}
void printLocalTime()
{
time_t rawtime;
struct tm * timeinfo;
time (&rawtime);
timeinfo = localtime (&rawtime);
Serial.println(asctime(timeinfo));
delay(1000);
}
