>>>How do I get date and time of NT server to register in to log file, from application running from Win 95 node.
>>>
>>>TIA
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>>Here's a function I wrote, that doesn't require using the API... seems to work ok.
>>
>>

>>#DEFINE _SERVER "svrgoliath"
>>#DEFINE _PATH "storage"
>>
>>function ServerTime( cServerName, cPath )
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>>local cUNC,cTmpFile,tServerTime
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>>if empty( cServerName )
>>	cServerName = _SERVER
>>endif
>>if empty( cPath )
>>	cPath = _PATH
>>endif
>>
>>cTmpFile = '!'+right(SYS(2015),7)+'.tmp'
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>>cUNC = addbs('\\'+cServerName)
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>>if left(cPath,1) = '\'
>>	cPath = subs(cPath,2)
>>endif
>>
>>cUNC = addbs(cUNC+cPath)+cTmpFile
>>
>>set alternate to ( cUNC )
>>?
>>set alternate to
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>>tServerTime = FDATE( cUNC, 1 )
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>>delete file ( cUNC )
>>
>>return tServerTime
>>

>>
>>It actually returns a DateTime but you can pull the time out if you want. As you can see, the user will need write,read,delete access on the path you sepcify for this to work.
>>
>
>It's a neat approach to the problem, Bob; I see two possible problems:
>
>(1) You need write access to somewhere on the NT box in question, and
>(2) I've gotten some funny time stamp conversions reading a date/time stamp off an NTFS volume on some release of NT with some Win9x versions. The date/time stamp read off the NT box vaied by up to an hour with the date/time stamp read for the same file from a networked Win9x box. I've never pinpointed the problem, but it has resulted in a lot of head-scratching; biggest problems seem to have come up during development; I sometimes got .FXPs back from an NT box date/time stamped earlier than the .PRG file when the .FXP was compiled from the Win9x box and the .PRG modified on the NT box in the same shared NT directory.
>

Ed, could this possibly have anything to do with Daylight Savings Time? We used to see this on W95 boxes attached to an NT server when we were using FPD. After DST kicked in, all of our FPD projects would need to be recompiled or you'd get "source out of date" messages in the debugger. Everything would show as 1 hour time difference there, too.