# Worldtimeapi.org is down

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/worldtimeapi-org-is-down/76815>\
**Category:** Documentation\
**Created:** [January 11, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/worldtimeapi-org-is-down/76815 "2025-01-11T17:43:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![hugovk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/hugovk/32/14505_2.png) [@hugovk](https://discuss.python.org/u/hugovk)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/worldtimeapi-org-is-down/76815/3 "2025-01-11T18:05:56Z")

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The status page is [https://status.worldtimeapi.org](https://status.worldtimeapi.org) and says it was only up for 15.48% of the last month.

Yes, let’s update the example to something more reliable. We want new users to be able to follow the tutorial without stumbling over things like this.

Is there something a little more interesting than HTTPbin? We could use the [Star Wars API](https://swapi.tech/) or [Pokémon API](https://pokeapi.co/), but it might be nice to stick to a plain text response instead of using JSON?

> [@gerardw](#):
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> [World Time API: Simple JSON/plain-text API to obtain the current time in, and related data about, a timezone.](http://worldtimeapi.org/pages/faqs#commercial-apps)

This doesn’t even load for me 🙃

> [@gerardw](#):
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> The existence of a URL in an example doesn’t imply the Python community has any responsibility for it.

No, but we have responsibility for our docs and want them to be useful, and especially don’t want new learners to turn away and give up when our examples don’t work.

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