system date and time update

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The Spoon

I am looking for functions that can be used to automatically update the
system date and time on an NT based system, resulting from manually entered
date and time values input by an operator via a 32-bit console app. Any
ideas?..I may have to look further afield at Win32 API's, etc but I wondered
if there was any way to do it via C initially.

Merry Xmas to all !!!
 
M

Mark A. Odell

I am looking for functions that can be used to automatically update the
system date and time on an NT based system, resulting from manually
entered date and time values input by an operator via a 32-bit console
app. Any ideas?..I may have to look further afield at Win32 API's, etc
but I wondered if there was any way to do it via C initially.

No, not with ISO C. You'll want a win32 newsgroup where they can tell you
how to do it in Windows NT. ISO C does not deal with system specific
details like this (or serial ports, or graphic cards, or parallel ports,
etc.)
 
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Christopher Benson-Manica

The Spoon said:
I am looking for functions that can be used to automatically update the
system date and time on an NT based system, resulting from manually entered
date and time values input by an operator via a 32-bit console app. Any
ideas?..I may have to look further afield at Win32 API's, etc but I wondered
if there was any way to do it via C initially.

(The below welcome text was originally written by Ben Pfaff)

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Derk Gwen

# I am looking for functions that can be used to automatically update the
# system date and time on an NT based system, resulting from manually entered
# date and time values input by an operator via a 32-bit console app. Any
# ideas?..I may have to look further afield at Win32 API's, etc but I wondered
# if there was any way to do it via C initially.

If NT accepts a command-line to do this the way Unix accepts a date command,
it might be easiest to sprintf the command to a string and then call
system() to run the command.

On unix I would do something like
char command[1000];
sprintf(command,"date %04d%02d%02d%02d%02d.%02d",
year,month,day,hour,minute,second);
if (system(command)!=0) {error-processing;}
 
C

code_wrong

The Spoon said:
I am looking for functions that can be used to automatically update the
system date and time on an NT based system, resulting from manually entered
date and time values input by an operator via a 32-bit console app. Any
ideas?..I may have to look further afield at Win32 API's, etc but I wondered
if there was any way to do it via C initially.

Merry Xmas to all !!!

This XP machine here, and any MSWindows machine I have used, has DATE to
check/set the date and TIME to check/set the time.Why do you want to write a
C program to do the same job?
 

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