GET actrealtime/time?unixTime={unixTime}&callback={callback}

Use this to retrieve the current system date and time. Since BusTime® is a time dependent system, it is important to synchronize your application with BusTime’s system date and time. This call is unchanged from v1. A JSON response requires v2 or higher

Request Information

URI Parameters

NameDescriptionTypeAdditional information
unixTime

If true, returns the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970.

 boolean

None.
callback

string

None.

Body Parameters

None.

Response Information

Resource Description

A well-formed XML or JSON document, containing the current system time, will be returned as a response to gettime.

RequestResponseOfTimeRequestResponse
NameDescriptionTypeAdditional information
bustime-response

TimeRequestResponse

None.

Response Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample: 
{
  "bustime-response": {
    "tm": {},
    "error": [
      {
        "rtpidatafeed": "sample string 1",
        "stpid": "sample string 2",
        "rt": "sample string 3",
        "vid": "sample string 4",
        "msg": "sample string 5"
      },
      {
        "rtpidatafeed": "sample string 1",
        "stpid": "sample string 2",
        "rt": "sample string 3",
        "vid": "sample string 4",
        "msg": "sample string 5"
      }
    ]
  }
}

text/html

Sample: 
{"bustime-response":{"tm":{},"error":[{"rtpidatafeed":"sample string 1","stpid":"sample string 2","rt":"sample string 3","vid":"sample string 4","msg":"sample string 5"},{"rtpidatafeed":"sample string 1","stpid":"sample string 2","rt":"sample string 3","vid":"sample string 4","msg":"sample string 5"}]}}

application/xml, text/xml

Sample: 
<RequestResponseOfTimeRequestResponseV_SDPij9I xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/ACTransit.Transit.Domain.Models">
  <Response>
    <Error>
      <RequestErrorResponse.BusTimeError>
        <Msg>sample string 5</Msg>
        <Rt>sample string 3</Rt>
        <RtpiDataFeed>sample string 1</RtpiDataFeed>
        <StpId>sample string 2</StpId>
        <VId>sample string 4</VId>
      </RequestErrorResponse.BusTimeError>
      <RequestErrorResponse.BusTimeError>
        <Msg>sample string 5</Msg>
        <Rt>sample string 3</Rt>
        <RtpiDataFeed>sample string 1</RtpiDataFeed>
        <StpId>sample string 2</StpId>
        <VId>sample string 4</VId>
      </RequestErrorResponse.BusTimeError>
    </Error>
    <Tm />
  </Response>
</RequestResponseOfTimeRequestResponseV_SDPij9I>