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Ensuring correct system time and date

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    #16
    RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

    What is the central server Operating System?

    Bo

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      #17
      RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

      Right now, Windows 98, but we are probably going to upgrade to Windows 2000. I know that you can synchronize the date/time to NIST with Windows 98 and above. I tried it and it works.

      Robin

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        #18
        RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

        So you take the value from the text file and update the local system clock???

        How do you keep it up to date, do you reference the new text files whenever you want date\time?

        BO

        btw Visual DialogScript looks like an interesting product. How does it compare to perl?

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          #19
          RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

          Peter,

          That sounds like a workable idea as well. Everyone has given lots of good suggestions for me to ponder.

          Thanks,
          Robin

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            #20
            RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

            So you take the value from the text file and update the local system clock???

            No, the text file (server) time is logged into the database with the user_id. They can have the local PC time be whatever. A note on the login form tells the user that "System Time", not local machine is used to calculate hours.

            How do you keep it up to date, do you reference the new text files whenever you want date\time?

            There is only one text file on the server. A5 reads that text file on login & logout.

            _Peter
            Peter
            AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

             [email protected]
            https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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              #21
              RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

              But, one could have a script for Alpha to read the text file at the time of each new entry as well. It wouldn't have to be just at login and logout. That is correct isn't it?

              Thanks,
              Robin

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                #22
                RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

                Oops, I'm in error, you can't use Windows 98 to synchronize with NIST times. This functionality was initiated with Windows 2000 and XP.

                Robin

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                  #23
                  RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

                  Right. Just create a function to read the text file. Run the function whenever/wherever you want. I programmed Visual DialogScript to write the server time every 30 seconds. I could have programmed it to write every 1-sec, but that seemed excessive and unnecessary.
                  Peter
                  AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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                    #24
                    RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

                    If you want to set the time on a client machine every time you do a transaction you can do this by using the "set time" command. I used to use this on our network but found that about time was better. Since settime is a Windows command you can run this as part of your procedure and correct the time whenever you want. (Do a search on the MS knowledgebase on settime to get the syntax)

                    Russ

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                      #25
                      RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

                      Russ,

                      I think the command is "Net Time". I think I had tried to use that and I couldn't get it to work properly. I don't know if you can run that command from A5 - maybe you can. I'm not sure how you capture the command output either.

                      Peter
                      Peter
                      AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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                        #26
                        RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

                        You are probably right. I have a batch file I wrote to do this somewhere. I'll post it if I can find it. It is pretty simple.

                        Russ

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                          #27
                          RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

                          To set the time on a machine before doing some operation you can save this to a batch file:

                          net time \\50 /set /yes

                          I use SETTIME.BAT where 50 is the machine name that you want to get the time from (I think you can also use the ip address), set sets the time on the local machine and I forget what the yes is for. If you run this from Alpha as an external program it will probably flash a DOS window and then continue. (I haven't tried it like this, I used to run this from autoexec.bat) This should keep your users synched with the time of an external machine even if they change the time.

                          Russ

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                            #28
                            RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

                            Thanks, Russ. I'll check it out.
                            Peter
                            AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                             [email protected]
                            https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                              #29
                              RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

                              Thanks, that should be helpful for met as well.

                              Kind regards,
                              Robin Sculthorpe

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                                #30
                                RE: Ensuring correct system time and date

                                Lots of second source programs will update win98 system time to atomic clocks on the internet. I believe net time works for 98 as well.


                                Bo

                                (personally if it were me I'd have a linux firewall do it for you and get everything from that.

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