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How to get date from time server
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01571413
Message ID:
01571419
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Lack of administrator permissions.

>What's to stop a user from changing their local date after they login?
>
>>Current versions of Windows do that automatically and in effect cache it locally. So from within VFP you can just use DATE() or DATETIME(). Windows even converts the time it receives from time server(s) to your selected time zone.
>>
>>Is there a particular reason you want to directly query a time server?
Regards. Al

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