[AccessD] Time Synchronization

Fair enough Mark!

Looks like Gustav has the answer though!

Good luck, please let me/us know how you get on.

Best regards!
Chris Foote

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mnptl at sonmedia.com [mailto:mnptl at sonmedia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:21 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Time Synchronization
> 
> 
> Hi Chris - yes, TECHNICALLY that would be a lot easier!  PROCEDURALLY,
> that could take months!  I'm currently assisting a 
> pharmaceutical company
> with ensuring that they meet all FDA regulations, especially those
> concerning electronic records.
> 
> The concept of handling their time synchronization in a 
> centralized way is
> somewhat new, and will have to go up the chain of command to 
> head office,
> mulled over, a policy put in place, local IT procedures 
> created, and then
> the technical controls instituted...  a very long process.
> 
> I was hoping that there was something similar to:
> 
> command.com /c net time \\<servername> /set /y
> 
> that could use for synchronizing the local machine's time to 
> a "standard"
> clock available on the Internet, such as NIST.  I tried the 
> command above
> with:
> 
> command.com /c net time \\129.6.15.28 /set /y
> 
> ... (which is one of the NIST time server IP addresses) but with no
> success.  It CAN be used for synchronizing with the back-end 
> server, but I
> was hoping for something more thorough!
> 
> Let me know if you know of any other way.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Foote, Chris" <Chris.Foote at uk.thalesgroup.com>
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] Time Synchronization
> 
> Hi Mark!
> 
> Would it not be easier to synch the clock on the host machine 
> with a NTP
> server and then get that via Date() Time() etc?
> 
> Or does the time function need to be totally encapsulated in 
> the Access app?
> 
> Regards!
> Chris Foote