Binance API Spot Market Trading Bot Error: "Timestamp for this request was 1000ms ahead of the server's time"

API Spot/Margin API
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I am developing a trading bot for the spot market using the Binance API. However, I frequently encounter the following error when sending requests to the API:

Timestamp for this request was 1000ms ahead of the server's time.

This error is likely related to time synchronization. I have set my server’s time to UTC and I am using the following code:

import time
import hmac
import hashlib
import requests
import json

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"
API_SECRET = "YOUR_API_SECRET"
BASE_URL = "https://api.binance.com"

# Function to check time synchronization
def get_server_time():
    response = requests.get(BASE_URL + "/api/v3/time")
    return response.json()["serverTime"]

# Function to generate signature
def generate_signature(data):
    return hmac.new(API_SECRET.encode(), data.encode(), hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()

# Function to place market orders
def place_order(symbol, side, quantity, order_type="MARKET"):
    timestamp = int(time.time() * 1000)
    server_time = get_server_time()
    time_diff = server_time - timestamp
    print(f"Server time difference: {time_diff}ms")

    params = {
        "symbol": symbol,
        "side": side,
        "type": order_type,
        "quantity": quantity,
        "timestamp": server_time  # Using the server's time to correct the issue
    }

    query_string = "&".join([f"{key}={value}" for key, value in params.items()])
    signature = generate_signature(query_string)
    params["signature"] = signature

    headers = {"X-MBX-APIKEY": API_KEY}
    response = requests.post(BASE_URL + "/api/v3/order", headers=headers, params=params)

    print(response.json())

# Sending an order for testing
place_order("BTCUSDT", "BUY", 0.001)
  • I don’t get this error all the time, but it occurs more frequently during peak market conditions.
  • I have set my server’s time to UTC and corrected the time difference by using the server time, yet the error persists.