by Matthew Ruffell (3 Submissions)
Category: Windows System Services
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(18 Votes)
Returns the time of day from a Windows NT workstation or server. Accounts for time zones. Requires Windows NT.
Inputs
ServerName [string] = name of target server.
Assumes
Requires Windows NT.
Code Returns
Return the time of day.
Side Effects
Noen.
API DeclarationsPrivate Type TIME_OF_DAY
t_elapsedt As Long
t_msecs As Long
t_hours As Long
t_mins As Long
t_secs As Long
t_hunds As Long
t_timezone As Long
t_tinterval As Long
t_day As Long
t_month As Long
t_year As Long
t_weekday As Long
End Type
Private Declare Function NetRemoteTOD Lib "netapi32.dll" (ByVal server As String, buffer As Any) As Long
Private Declare Sub CopyMem Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (pTo As Any, uFrom As Any, ByVal lSize As Long)
Private Declare Function NetApiBufferFree Lib "netapi32.dll" (ByVal Ptr As Long) As Long
VBcodersPublic Function Get_ServerTime(ByVal strServerName As String) As String
Dim lngBuffer As Long
Dim strServer As String
Dim lngNet32ApiReturnCode As Long
Dim days As Date
Dim TOD As TIME_OF_DAY
On Error Resume Next
'// Get server time
strServer = StrConv(strServerName, vbUnicode) '// Convert the server name to unicode
lngNet32ApiReturnCode = NetRemoteTOD(strServer, lngBuffer)
If lngNet32ApiReturnCode = 0 Then
CopyMem TOD, ByVal lngBuffer, Len(TOD)
days = DateSerial(70, 1, 1) + (TOD.t_elapsedt / 60 / 60 / 24) '// Convert the elapsed time since 1/1/70 to a date
days = days - (TOD.t_timezone / 60 / 24) '// Adjust for TimeZone differences
Get_ServerTime = days
End If
'// Free pointers from memory
Call NetApiBufferFree(lngBuffer)
End Function
