[SOLVED] [3.3.6.1/newbie] Change system date?

[littlebigman]

Hello

I need to use an old application that is no longer sold and only a 30-day trial version is available.

As a work-around, I'd like to change the system date 10 days in the past, run the application, and set the system date back to today.

I found this code which only changes the year, but setting the date back 10 days is more tricky:

$date = @MON & "/" & @MDAY & "/" & @YEAR
RegWrite("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DateChange", "Date", "REG_SZ", $date)
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & "date " & @MON & "/" & @MDAY & "/" & @YEAR-1, "", @SW_HIDE)

$date = RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DateChange", "Date")
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & "date " & $date, "", @SW_HIDE)

Does someone have some working code I could use for this by any chance?

Thank you.

Edited March 23, 2011 by littlebigman

[littlebigman]

For those looking for the same thing:

#include <Date.au3>

$Date = _DateAdd("d",-10,_NowCalcDate())
$DateArray = StringSplit($Date,"/")
$FormattedDate = $DateArray[2] & "-" & $DateArray[3] & "-" & $DateArray[1]
msgbox(0, $FormattedDate, $FormattedDate)

Incidently, mentions two applications that do exactly what I needed:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html

http://timestopper.blinkweb.com/

I couldn't get TimeStopper to pass a parameter to the application, while RunAsDate works fine.

HTH,