An old Laptop is missing the battery.
Runs fine while plugged in. Left without power for a few days and the time is way off. Really Way off.
How can i put a simple batch file the will reset the date if it is earlier than, say, March 15, 2010.  It would be OK to just SET it to March 15, 2010 and make a beeping noise ti let me know.
Maybe I could do this myself, but it would take me a week. But some you people does this sort of thing during lunch without letting your coffee get cold.
Pretty please!

PS I know about http://support.microsoft.com/kb/199030 but this is not an issue here, I just need a simple batch to fix the date and beep me on a old XP machine, not Vista or Windows 7.Spent some time trying to make a script work with this, but I GAVE up. VBScript and JScript make setting the date and time ridiculously hard. (and I couldn't get the WMI methods to work).

So I resorted to a VB6 program I tried the script first to avoid using an executable. oh well.

just a single module actually, you could probably make something similar with QuickBASIC...
Code: [Select]Option Explicit

Sub Main()
Dim latestdate As Date
Dim dateparts() As String

Dim gotyear As Integer, gotmonth As Integer, gotday As Integer


If Command$ <> "" Then
    dateparts = Split(Date, " ")
    If UBound(dateparts) >= 0 Then
        gotyear = Val(dateparts(0))
        If UBound(dateparts) >= 1 Then
            gotmonth = Val(dateparts(1))
            If UBound(dateparts) >= 2 Then
            gotday = Val(dateparts(2))
           
            End If
        End If
    End If
   
Else
    gotyear = 2010
    gotmonth = 3
    gotday = 1

End If
latestdate = DateSerial(gotyear, gotmonth, gotday)






If Now < latestdate Then
    Date = DateSerial(2010, 3, 1)
    Beep
    MsgBox "System Date has been reset to " & FormatDateTime(Now)
End If



End Sub

-the source files are included as well.





[recovering disk space - old attachment deleted by admin] Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 05, 2010, 05:10:05 PM

I just need a simple batch to fix the date and beep me on a old XP machine.