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david_taylor
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11 years ago

Options to store the actual date before the system date is set to another date

Hi I am using TestComplete 10 with a DeskTop module.  I have some scripts that use aqDateTime to change the system date. I want the tests to set the system date back to the actual date at the en...
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    AlexKaras
    11 years ago
    Hi David,



    You may implement the code that gets the current date/time and stores it into the temporary project variable in the OnStartTest event handler. This will guarantee that you will not need to execute some separate test code to have the variable to be populated with the value.
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scottb
Contributor
11 years ago
This is a topic I was looking into recently.  Does anyone know if the Windows Time service is supposed to reset the date if it is set by aqDateTime? 



I'm currently building a process to change the date, but before I change it I "net stop "Windows Time" to keep windows from "correcting" my date choice for me.  I'm not sure if this is necessary, and I did not see anything in the documentation about it.