read the server time

how can a system that connected to server can be set to the same exactly same as the server? normally that a program run at the local system, we would be able to read from local system (the time we set in computer) but how if we want to synchornous to the server time?

I'm a bit confused with your question. What you exactly want/need to do? May you give an example?

let say now I have a pc that connecting to a server. my pc's time is 10 Jan 2008 whereas the server's time is 12 Jan 2008. So now I want to read the time from server.

I suppose your server should support corresponding request
http://www.google.co.il/search?hl=en...est+servertime

yes... actually i have this device that go under testing. so each time, i will need to manually change the time and date of that device to syn. with my pc local time. but indeed of using local pc time, I will wish to use the server time so it will be more accurate as local pc time might be changed by others and incorrect!
so basically i am developing a program that will automatically take the time from server and update the the device.

I have ady get this function
NetRemoteTOD
but somehow it could work with my compiler...

any idea?

Is the server running a NTP server? If so, then just use that.

how if no... can it be more simple than that?

1- when a the server receives a remote connection, it sends the serv time.
2- the client gets it, compare with its local time and adjusts if it's the case.
I cannot see a simpler way than this

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Originally Posted by carlyn

yes... actually i have this device that go under testing. so each time, i will need to manually change the time and date of that device to syn. with my pc local time. but indeed of using local pc time, I will wish to use the server time so it will be more accurate as local pc time might be changed by others and incorrect!
so basically i am developing a program that will automatically take the time from server and update the the device.

I have ady get this function
NetRemoteTOD
but somehow it could work with my compiler...

any idea?

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Possibly?

Code:

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#pragma comment(lib, "netapi32.lib")
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <lm.h>

static const char *dow[] = { "Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat" };
static const char *month[] = { "???", "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec" };

int main( int argc, char *argv[] )
{
        wchar_t server[256] = L"";
        TIME_OF_DAY_INFO *p = NULL;

        if ( argc > 1 )
                mbstowcs( server, argv[1], strlen( argv[1] ) + 1 );
        else
                return -1;
        if(NetRemoteTOD( server, (LPBYTE *) &p ) != NERR_Success)
                return -1;
        printf( "Unix time_t:    %lu (since 1/1/70 00:00:00 UTC)\n", p->tod_elapsedt );
        printf( "Milliseconds:    %lu (since boot)\n", p->tod_msecs );
        printf( "Current time:    %02lu:%02lu:%02lu.%02lu (UTC)\n", p->tod_hours, p->tod_mins, p->tod_secs, p->tod_hunds );
        printf( "Timezone offset: %ld (minutes from GMT)\n", p->tod_timezone );
        printf( "Tick length:    %lu (microseconds)\n", p->tod_tinterval * 100 );
        printf( "Current date:    %s, %lu %s %lu\n", dow[p->tod_weekday], p->tod_day, month[p->tod_month], p->tod_year );
        NetApiBufferFree( p );
        return 0;
}

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