For those interested, I found this to be my simplest solution. I was unable to get the Joetools to work or the complicated gettime and settime procedures.

I need to get the time from my server independent of my client. Since I can no longer "ask the server" what time it is without a major security headache; I came up with this; (I:\ is of course a network drive on my server)

If File('i:\data\ecnc\data\setservertime.txt')
	Delete File 'i:\data\ecnc\data\setservertime.txt'
ENDIF
cFileDesc='File is created and deleted on the server so that the time can be retrieved from the remote server independant of the client ' + TTOC(DATETIME())

Strtofile(cFileDesc,'i:\data\ecnc\data\setservertime.txt')

? Datetime() &&returns the client datetime
? Fdate('I:\DATA\ecnc\Data\setservertime.txt',1) &&returns the server datetime

there is only second or two difference between the two when the clocks are synched.