Kevin - let me know how this turned out. I just had a client to create a log in system for his employees which record their work time. I haven't created any code as yet but was also concerned about using the time from the local computers.

Thanks

Gaylen



>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).
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>I used to use the following command prompt from within vfp...
>net time \\servername /set /Y
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>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. (?)
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>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).
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>Is there a class of some sort available that will do this under VFP6?
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>I realise I could use online atomic clock software, but not all pcs on this network have internet access.
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>Hopefully someone here will be able to help.
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>Thanks in advance,
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> -Kevin.