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feature: add sync_time.sh utility
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zenixls2 committed Dec 1, 2022
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## Advanced Configuration

### Synchronize System Time With Binance

BBGO provides the script for UNIX systems/subsystems to synchronize date with Binance. `jq` and `bc` are required to be installed in previous.
To install the dependencies in Ubuntu, try the following commands:

```bash
sudo apt install -y bc jq
```

And to synchronize the date, try:

```bash
sudo ./scripts/sync_time.sh
```

You could also add the script to crontab so that the system time could get synchronized with Binance regularly.

### Testnet (Paper Trading)

Currently only supports binance testnet. To run bbgo in testnet, apply new API keys
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#!/usr/bin/sh

date -s @`echo "$(curl https://api.binance.com/api/v3/time 2>/dev/null | jq .serverTime)/1000"|bc -l`

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