slave.py

from timeit import default_timer as timer 
from dateutil import parser 
import threading 
import datetime 
import socket 
import time 


# client thread function used to send time at client side 
def startSendingTime(slave_client): 

	while True: 
		# provide server with clock time at the client 
		slave_client.send(str(datetime.datetime.now()).encode()) 

		print("Recent time sent successfully", end = "\n\n") 
		time.sleep(5) 


# client thread function used to receive synchronized time 
def startReceivingTime(slave_client): 

	while True: 
		# receive data from the server 
		Synchronized_time = parser.parse(slave_client.recv(1024).decode()) 

		print("Synchronized time at the client is: " + str(Synchronized_time), end = "\n\n") 


# function used to Synchronize client process time 
def initiateSlaveClient(port = 8080): 

	slave_client = socket.socket()		 
		
	# connect to the clock server on local computer 
	slave_client.connect(('127.0.0.1', port)) 

	# start sending time to server 
	print("Starting to receive time from server\n") 
	send_time_thread = threading.Thread(target = startSendingTime, args = (slave_client, )) 
	send_time_thread.start() 


	# start recieving synchronized from server 
	print("Starting to recieving " + "synchronized time from server\n") 
	receive_time_thread = threading.Thread(target = startReceivingTime, args = (slave_client, )) 
	receive_time_thread.start() 


# Driver function 
if __name__ == '__main__': 

	# initialize the Slave / Client 
	initiateSlaveClient(port = 8080)