How to get the actual time using API

[accesser2003]

What I want is to get the actual date/time, even the user changes the date/time of the PC by setting the "Date and Time properties" window which shown in the system tray.

Thanks,

 

[namliam]

All you can do using API is retrieve the System time I think, unless you setup some server someplace that has the time to be retrieved.

Easiest would be to have a DB server like Oracle or SQL Serve where you select the time from.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

eh?

doesn't time() do that for you

msgbox(time)

 

[namliam]

Gemma,

I think the OP is looking for a way to "deal" with the user tampering with the time on the local machine. Time() will retrieve the local time of the local machine.
Ergo, not a solution.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

i see - could you get this from a web site somewhere?

although you would never be able to use date() or now() oe time() etc anywhere if you didnt trust the local clock

 

[namliam]

Yep, no date, now time etc...

That is why I was/am suggesting taking a select from a (central) oracle/sql server.

Or taking it from a website might be an option, tho I wouldnt know how to do that and/or which website to go to and if it would even be possible to do that with the security on databases/code etc now a days.