>I need to register the team working on the industrial plant who are manufacturing items. The team change happens twice a day; once at 7:00 am anf the other at 7:00 pm.
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>The teams (A,B) are used to register which team manufactured parts.
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>If I use the time of the individual workstations on the plant floor and the time of a or each workstation happen to be off, each workstation will be changing shifts at diffenent times, which will result in registering different teams at the same time.
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>Does anyone know of a good and accurate method of retrieving the time from a common source (perhaps the server) so all the date and time stamps are accurate?
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>Or is there a better method to implement this?
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>Thanks in advance!
The following is relatively easy: You can create a temporary file on the server and check its date/time stamp.
Hilmar.
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