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Anyway to prevent user from changing system time/date?
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08/12/2003 20:31:54
 
 
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08/12/2003 20:22:20
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00857033
Message ID:
00857038
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Hilmar,

Thanks for the tip! However, the app runs only on a standalone PC.

Is there still a way?

Dennis

>>Hi All,
>>
>>Is there any way to prevent users from changing system date and time?
>>
>>This would be useful to prevent unscrupulous guys from altering it before recording his TIME IN on a bundy clock app, making it appear that he was on time.
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Dennis
>
>Check the time on a server, as part of the record-updating procedure.
>
>To do this, just create an empty file on the server, and check its date-time. This will be the date-time on the server, not the date-time on the local machine. If the discrepancy is more than "x" minutes, ask the user to correct the local clock.
>
>HTH,
>
>Hilmar.
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