Change system date

[Richard]

How can we change/reset the system date.

Thanks in advance.
RC

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

How can we change/reset the system date.

P/invoke on 'SetSystemTime':

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[Guest]

Here's a VB.NET solution to change system time:

Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

<StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)> _
Public Structure SYSTEMTIME
Public wYear As Short
Public wMonth As Short
Public wDayOfWeek As Short
Public wDay As Short
Public wHour As Short
Public wMinute As Short
Public wSecond As Short
Public wMilliseconds As Short
End Structure

Private Declare Function SetSystemTime Lib "kernel32" (ByRef
lpSystemTime As SYSTEMTIME) As Integer
Private Declare Sub GetSystemTime Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetSystemTime"
(ByRef lpSystemTime As SYSTEMTIME)

Usage (SetSystemTime):

Dim st As SYSTEMTIME
With st
.wDay = 1
.wMonth = 1
.wYear = 1981
.wMinute = 1
.wHour = 1
.wSecond = 0
End With
If SetSystemTime(st) = 1 Then
MessageBox.Show("System Time Changed")
Else
MessageBox.Show(Marshal.GetLastWin32Error.ToString)
End If

Usage (GetSystemTime):

Dim sysTime As SYSTEMTIME
GetSystemTime(sysTime)
MessageBox.Show(sysTime.wHour.ToString())

Obviously, I am running under administration rights & you need to take this
into account if you are just a user.

I hope this helps