# Is there a way to get the system's current date and time?
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-systems-current-date-and-time/34465
**Category:** Arcade
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-systems-current-date-and-time/34465 "2025-03-11T01:30:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Jedi](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Jedi)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 1:30am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-systems-current-date-and-time/34465/1 "2025-03-11T01:30:15Z")
i mean i could just ask for the time and date every time a player boots the game but that would get tedius.
@richard
(also i dont mean hardware browser only)
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### Author:  [@AlexK](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AlexK)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-systems-current-date-and-time/34465/2 "2025-03-11T01:35:15Z")
Interesting thought. Arcade hardware would have no concept of “current date and time,” but it sounds like something that could be wedged into the fancy new `browser-events` extension.
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### Author:  [@WoofWoof](https://forum.makecode.com/u/WoofWoof)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-systems-current-date-and-time/34465/3 "2025-03-11T01:37:59Z")
No, because the hardware doesn’t support it. You could create a server and ask it with the websocket extension, but I don’t think that’s worth it.
New browser events sounds cool! Looking forward to this update!
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### Author:  [@Jedi](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Jedi)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-systems-current-date-and-time/34465/4 "2025-03-11T01:38:28Z")
yeah i assumed it wasn’t possible with hardware, but yeah i really hope its a new feature in the new extension that would be so nice!
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### Author:  [@Jedi](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Jedi)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-systems-current-date-and-time/34465/5 "2025-03-11T11:36:31Z")
i never thought about using websocket for it! honestly thats a great idea! (not only for time stuff but for other aspects such as multiplayer ofc)
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### Author:  [@WoofWoof](https://forum.makecode.com/u/WoofWoof)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-systems-current-date-and-time/34465/6 "2025-03-11T11:58:32Z")
I’ve never looked at that extension. Seems like you could do a lot of cool stuff, like collect poll responses and stuff. Someone could definitely look at the code though, so you would have to do a lot of security stuff on the other end to make sure no one does bad stuff to your server.
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### Author:  [@richard](https://forum.makecode.com/u/richard)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-the-systems-current-date-and-time/34465/7 "2025-03-11T16:59:30Z")
i actually added this to the browser-events extension (currently in beta) a few weeks ago.
here’s an [example beta project](http://arcade.makecode.com/beta#pub:_4YoKg03zzFMa). as always, I **recommend opening that beta link in a different browser or an incognito window**