Originally Posted by
Bat
The Neopets clock is set to Pacific time, so offsetting your local time by that timezone will get you close to the current time on the webpage. You can also retrieve the current time by loading a webpage with the Neopets clock on it, but the delay between the server completing the request and you receiving the full response may be enough to mess up the timing in such a way that you may be off by a few seconds. That's not important for full day refresh cycles, but something particularly finicky like the petpet care portion of the Altador plot would be impacted by the misalignment.