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Get Time From Server Syncronize Time With a Network Server
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Windows API functions
Title:
Get Time From Server Syncronize Time With a Network Server
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
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Thread ID:
01134535
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I was working on converting some VB code using netremotetod to VFP code when I came across this handy code. Can't believe I didn't find it before doing a search - it's dated 2/24/2005.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249716

*--Change server_name to your server name
* NetRemoteTOD's first parameter is a pointer to a
* Unicode string that contains the server name.
*
* The second parameter is a pointer to a byte array
* that contains a pointer to a TIME_OF_DAY_INFO structure

* The '@' in front of the second parameter ('integer @')
* dereferences this pointer to the byte array. Later in the
* program, the program uses RTLMoveMemory() to
* dereference the pointer this byte array contains
DECLARE INTEGER NetRemoteTOD IN netapi32 STRING @,  INTEGER @

* Note that the source address ('inbuffer') is declared as an integer,
* to be consistent with the second parameter in NetRemoteTOD above.
DECLARE INTEGER RtlMoveMemory IN win32api ;
   STRING @outbuffer, ;
   INTEGER inbuffer, ;
   INTEGER bytes2copy


* the TIME_OF_DAY_INFO structure
* contains 11 DWORDs and 1 long, for
* a total of 48 bytes. Therefore, tdbuffout is
* initialized as:
tdbuffout=REPLICATE(CHR(0), 48)
tdbuffin = 0

* the server name must be converted to Unicode
* This API function behaves differently depending on
* whether the target is a Win2000 computer or not -
*
* If Win2000, the servername must be preceded by "\\";
* otherwise, it must not.

server_name = "your_server_name"
try_server_name = STRCONV(server_name, 5)
rc = NetRemoteTOD(@try_server_name, @tdbuffin)
IF rc = 0
   * copy the contents pointed to by the address in tdbuffin to
   * tdbuffout
   =RtlMoveMemory(@tdbuffout, tdbuffin, 48)
ELSE
   * call failed. Therefore, the target is possibly a Win2000 box;
   * Retry the function call, prepending "\\" to the server_name
   try_server_name = STRCONV("\\" + server_name, 5)
   rc = NetRemoteTOD(@try_server_name, @tdbuffin)
   IF rc = 0
      * copy the contents pointed to by the address in tdbuffin to
      * tdbuffout
      =RtlMoveMemory(@tdbuffout, tdbuffin, 48)
   ELSE
      ? "NetRemoteTOD() call failed. Return code is: ", rc
      RETURN
   ENDIF
ENDIF

* Pick out the appropriate parts of the TIME_OF_DAY_INFORMATION
* buffer. This buffer will contain the UTC (Universal Coordinated
* Time) of the server, and must be adjusted by TOD_TIMEZONE minutes
* for the correct local time.

* str2long() converts the DWORDS and LONGS from their string
* representation back to numbers.
tod_month = str2long(SUBSTR(tdbuffout, 37, 4))
tod_day = str2long(SUBSTR(tdbuffout, 33, 4))
tod_year = str2long(SUBSTR(tdbuffout, 41, 4))
tod_hours = str2long(SUBSTR(tdbuffout, 9, 4))
tod_mins = str2long(SUBSTR(tdbuffout, 13, 4))
tod_secs = str2long(SUBSTR(tdbuffout, 17, 4))

* Subtract this bias (times 60, to obtain seconds)
* from the datetime value to obtain the
* server's local time
*
* Alternatively, to convert the server's local time to
* the workstation's local time, use the Win32 API function
* SystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTime, available under
* Windows NT only.
tod_timezone = str2long(SUBSTR(tdbuffout, 25, 4)) * 60

serverdatetime = DATETIME(tod_year, tod_month, tod_day, ;
   tod_hours, tod_mins, tod_secs)

? "UTC time of server is: ", serverdatetime
? "Server's local time is: ", serverdatetime - tod_timezone

*************************************************************
FUNCTION str2long
*************************************************************
* passed:  4-byte character string (m.longstr) in low-high ASCII format
* returns:  long integer value
* example:
*	m.longstr = "1111"
*	m.longval = str2long(m.longstr)

PARAMETERS m.longstr

PRIVATE i, m.retval

m.retval = 0
FOR i = 0 TO 24 STEP 8
   m.retval = m.retval + (ASC(m.longstr) * (2^i))
   m.longstr = RIGHT(m.longstr, LEN(m.longstr) - 1)
NEXT
RETURN m.retval
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