Get time from a locally running NTP server

def get_time():
    """Get time from a locally running NTP server"""

    time_request = '\x1b' + 47 * '\0'
    now = struct.unpack("!12I", ntp_service.request(time_request, timeout=5.0).data.read())[10]
    return time.ctime(now - EPOCH_START)