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Every Fluence reference node comes with a set of builtin services that are accessible to Aqua programs. Let's use those readily available services to get the timestamp of a few of our peer-to-peer neighbourhood nodes with Aqua.
Timestamps With Aqua
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-- timestamp_getter.aqua
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-- bring the builtin services into scope
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import "builtin.aqua"
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-- create an identity service to join our results
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service Op2("op"):
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    identity(s: u64)
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     array(a: string, b: u64) -> string
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​
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-- function to get ten timestamps from our Kademlia
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-- neighborhood peers and return as an array of u64 timestamps
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-- the function arguement node is our peer id
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func ts_getter(node: string) -> []u64:
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  -- create a streaming variable
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  res: *u64
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  -- execute on the pecified peer
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  on node:
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    -- get the base58 representation of the peer id
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    k <- Op.string_to_b58(node)
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    -- find all (default 20) neighborhood peers from k
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    nodes <- Kademlia.neighborhood(k, nil, nil)
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    -- for each peer in our neighborhood and in parallel
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    for n <- nodes par:
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      on n:
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        -- try and get the peer's timestamp
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        try:
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          res <- Peer.timestamp_ms()
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    -- flatten nine of our joined results
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    Op2.identity(res!9)
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  -- return an array of ten timestamps
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  <- res
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The Aqua script essentially creates a workflow originating from our client peer to enumerate neighbor peers for our reference node, calls on the builtin timestamp service on each peer in parallel,  joins the results stream after we collect ten timestamps and return our u64 array of timestamps back to the client peer. 
 See the ts-oracle example for the corresponding Aqua files in the aqua-script directory.  Now that we  have our script, let's compile it with the aqua-cli tool and find our AIR file in the air-scripts directory:
Compile
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aqua -i aqua-scripts -o air-scripts -a
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# in the air-script dir you should have the following file
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timestamp_getter.ts_getter.air
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Once we have our AIR file we can either use a Typescript or command line client. Let's use the command line client flidstsee third tab for installation instructions, if needed:
Run Air scripts
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Installing fldist
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# execute the AIR script from our compile phase with a peer id
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fldist run_air -p air-scripts/timestamp_getter.ts_getter.air  -d '{"node":"12D3KooWHLxVhUQyAuZe6AHMB29P7wkvTNMn7eDMcsqimJYLKREf"}'  --generated
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# here we go: ten timestamps in micro seconds obtained in parallel
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[
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  [
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    1624928596292,
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    1624928596291,
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    1624928596291,
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    1624928596299,
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    1624928596295,
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    1624928596286,
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    1624928596295,
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    1624928596284,
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    1624928596293,
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    1624928596289
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  ]
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]
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# if you don't have fldist on your machine: 
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npm -g install @fluencelabs/fldist
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And that's it.  We now have ten timestamps right from our selected peer's neighbors.
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