Calls an NTP server and converts the response to a millisecond unix epoch timestamp

ntp2timestamp.py

import socket
import struct
import time

client = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
data = '\x1b' + 47 * '\0'
client.sendto(data, ("0.se.pool.ntp.org",123))
data, address = client.recvfrom( 1024 )

if data:
    utc_secs = struct.unpack('!12I', data)[10]
    utc_millis = struct.unpack('!12I', data)[11]/4294967296.0
    utc_secs -= 2208988800L
    print int((utc_secs+utc_millis)*1000.0)
    
client.close()