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FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Is it possible to set the Windows time through VDS? Confused

Thanks...

Mac · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 9:32 pm Post subject:

You can use VDS and a DOS batch file in Win9x...

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Thanks for the idea, Mac. Very Happy

You can set the time directly from VDS by using DOS instead of a batch file.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Oops...

That doesn't work...I will use the batch file instead... Smile

Mac · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 10:58 pm Post subject:

Actually it does work straight from DOS. I use a
batch file to set one computer clock on my LAN,
so that's the reason I posted the batch example.

Just use these date/time formats:

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Strange, it does not seem to work on my XP Computer. Confused

Mac · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:34 pm Post subject:

Well, I mentioned it works in Windows 9x... Confused

I think XP doesn't have true DOS, but rather a
DOS emulator.

Anyone else have an idea to set the time from VDS?

Also, has anyone tried to run the DOS command.com
under XP as a "DOS" program? Or would it crash?

Just a thought...

Cheers, Mac Smile

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I just noticed that it did set the date though... (Feb. 2, 2000) Confused

Mac · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 9:39 pm Post subject:

Ya might check if your XP comp uses a different time
format, different separators (instead of the colons), etc.

If the DATE works, I'd think the TIME should too.

Cheers, Mac Smile

MarkTrubo · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 11:00 pm Post subject:

On XP I've used:

%%ATOMICITEM = @file(%Z\TIMEBLANK.sav,T)
%%DATEREAL = @DATETIME(mm-dd-yyyy,%%ATOMICITEM)

run command.com

:DOSCHECK
IF @WINEXISTS(#ConsoleWindowClass)
WINDOW SEND, #ConsoleWindowClass, "DATE "%%DATEREAL@CR()
WAIT 2
WINDOW SEND, #ConsoleWindowClass, "EXIT"@CR()
GOTO STEP4
END
WAIT 1
GOTO DOSCHECK

:STEP4

This can be done much better, but this format works on XP. The timeblank.sav is a file on our network server that gets it's time stamp updated to atomic time every few seconds.

Hortalonus · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2002 2:59 pm Post subject:

I believe that NT based systems require you to have administrator rights in order to change the system time... don't know if that's a factor for you or not FreezingFire.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Administrator priveliges are only required for setting the time if the Administrator has configured the computer that way. In my case, this is not an issue. Smile

attreus

on xp or 2000 - systems you can use cmd.exe in a similar way that mac did with the dos-command.com

CodeScript · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 3:14 am Post subject:

SetSystemTime API would be probably the most reliable way. You can refer "run as" replacement API if you want to do it from a non admin account under NT/2k/XP.
Someone can write an example. It needs a structure i think.
Good Luck