I need to check the time on the XP server prior to allowing a user action (basically it's an employee clock-in and I need to ensure they don't change the system time beforehand).

I used to use the following command prompt from within vfp...
net time \\servername /set /Y

This changed the time on the local machine to be the same as the server's time. However it doesn't seem to work anymore under an XP server. (?)


Ideally I would like just to query the server's datetime and to use _that_ datetime instead of the local one (not necessarily to change the local date/time).

Is there a class of some sort available that will do this under VFP6?

I realise I could use online atomic clock software, but not all pcs on this network have internet access.


Hopefully someone here will be able to help.

Thanks in advance,

-Kevin.