[roch-pm] Accessing windows time format?

[Derek J. Kalweit]

Brian:
	Depends on the program that created the registry entry. It could
be a FILETIME structure, SYSTEMTIME structure, large integer indicating
seconds/ms past a specific date in 1970(I don't remember off-hand which
one), a proprietary structure/value, etc. You also can't be sure if the
time is GMT, local time, or adjusted local time(daylight savings time).
Date/time stuff is EXTREMELY extensive in Win32-- it can be a major
headache. 
	Is the registry entry you're looking to read/write a system
entry, or something created by another program?  A path/value may be
helpful in determining what it is... 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Mathis [mailto:bmathis at directedge.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:19 PM
> To: rochester-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
> Subject: RE: [roch-pm] Accessing windows time format?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Derek J. Kalweit wrote:
> > Brian:
> >   The Win32 registry only allows DWORD, STRING, and BINARY data. Any
> > date/time in the registry is either stored as a DWORD or a 
> string-- both
> > as defined in the application that made the registry entry.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> The reg key type is BINARY.  I'm assuming that windows acts similar to
> UNIX in that the time is a great big number that you can run 
> through some
> magic functions to convert it to a human readable version.  
> Do you know if
> this is a correct assumption?  If so, do you know the magic function?
> 
> My goal is to be able to convert to human readable format, twiddle the
> date, then convert it back and store back in the registry.
> 
> -- 
> Brian Mathis
> Direct Edge
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