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Hi,

Since sometime I have been seeing a weird issue that all my applications are sometimes giving previous day date instead of current date.

After looking at all the sections I finally found if the machine was turned ON prior 12am and the application launches after 12 am which is probably the next day of boot, Date_Time_GetSystemTime ( ) shows the previous day date.

Eg. Today is 19/11/2017. No matter how many times I will launch the application during the day will always show me the current date as 19/11/2017. But if I will launch the application after 12am on 20/11/2017 this function for some reason reads the bootup time as 19th and displays the same.

Can someone test this once and tell me if it's just me? I will then provide the code.

 

 

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@argumentum, could you please try out this sample once?

If you try it out prior 12AM it will report correctly but if you do not restart the machine and run the same sample after 12AM, it will tell "Alert! System has not booted since more than 2 days", instead of "System was booted up yesterday".

#include <Process.au3>
#include <Date.au3>


$BootFile = 'C:\Temp\GetBootUpDate.txt'
_RunDos(@SystemDir & '\wbem\WMIC.exe OS get LastBootUpTime > C:\Temp\GetBootUpDate.txt')
$GetBD = StringLeft(FileReadLine($BootFile, 2), 8)

$SysUpDate = StringMid($GetBD, 5, 2) & '/' & StringRight($GetBD, 2) & '/' & StringLeft($GetBD, 4)
    Local $TodayDate = _Date_Time_GetSystemTime()
    Local $TodayDate1 = _Date_Time_SystemTimeToDateStr($TodayDate)
    Local $PreviousDayDate = _DateAdd('d', -1, _NowCalcDate())
    $GetPreviousDayDate = StringSplit($PreviousDayDate, "/")
    $sGetPreviousDayDate = $GetPreviousDayDate[2] & "/" & $GetPreviousDayDate[3] & "/" & $GetPreviousDayDate[1]

    If $SysUpDate = $TodayDate1 Then
        MsgBox(0, "", "System was booted up today.")

    ElseIf $SysUpDate = $sGetPreviousDayDate Then ; This is to check if the application ran after 12 AM, it should mean as day2 and not same day.
        MsgBox(0, "", "System was booted up yesterday.")

    Else
        MsgBox(0, "", "Alert! System has not booted since more than 2 days.")
    EndIf

 

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5 hours ago, DigDeep said:

run the same sample after 12AM

UTC time vs. local time =/
 

#include <Process.au3>
#include <Date.au3>

Local $sMsg = ""
$BootFile = @ScriptDir & '\GetBootUpDate.txt'
_RunDos(@SystemDir & '\wbem\WMIC.exe OS get LastBootUpTime > "' & $BootFile & '"')
$GetBD = StringLeft(FileReadLine($BootFile, 2), 8)
$sMsg &= '> $GetBD >' & $GetBD & '<' & @CR
$SysUpDate = StringMid($GetBD, 5, 2) & '/' & StringRight($GetBD, 2) & '/' & StringLeft($GetBD, 4)
$sMsg &= '> $SysUpDate >' & $SysUpDate & '<' & @CR

Local $TodayDate = _Date_Time_GetSystemTime() ; Retrieves the current system date and time expressed in UTC
Local $TodayDate1 = _Date_Time_SystemTimeToDateStr($TodayDate)
$sMsg &= '> $TodayDate1 >' & $TodayDate1 & '<-- UTC time' & @CR

Local $PreviousDayDate = _DateAdd('d', -1, _NowCalcDate())
$sMsg &= '> $PreviousDayDate >' & $PreviousDayDate & '<' & @CRLF

$GetPreviousDayDate = StringSplit($PreviousDayDate, "/")
$sGetPreviousDayDate = $GetPreviousDayDate[2] & "/" & $GetPreviousDayDate[3] & "/" & $GetPreviousDayDate[1]
$sMsg &= '> $sGetPreviousDayDate >' & $sGetPreviousDayDate & '<' & @CR & @CR

$sMsg &=  'If ' & $SysUpDate & ' = ' & $TodayDate1 & ' Then '& @CR
$sMsg &=  'ElseIf ' & $SysUpDate & ' = ' & $sGetPreviousDayDate & ' Then '& @CR

MsgBox(262144, "", $sMsg)

If $SysUpDate = $TodayDate1 Then
    MsgBox(0, "", "System was booted up today.")
ElseIf $SysUpDate = $sGetPreviousDayDate Then ; This is to check if the application ran after 12 AM, it should mean as day2 and not same day.
    MsgBox(0, "", "System was booted up yesterday.")
Else
    MsgBox(0, "", "Alert! System has not booted since more than 2 days.")
EndIf

 

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#include <WinAPISys.au3>
#include <Date.au3>

Switch DaysSinceBoot()
    Case -1
        MsgBox(262144, "", "error =(")
    Case 0
        MsgBox(262144, "", "System was booted up today.")
    Case 1
        MsgBox(262144, "", "System was booted up yesterday.")
    Case Else
        MsgBox(262144, "", "Alert! System has not booted since more than 2 days.")
EndSwitch

Func DaysSinceBoot()
    ; by argumentum ; https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/191260-date_time_getsystemtime-giving-false-results/?do=findComment&comment=1371960
    Local $ret = _WinAPI_GetTickCount()
    If @error Then Return SetError(1, 0, -1)
    Local $uptime = Int($ret / 1000) ; seconds since boot
    Local $bootDate = StringLeft(_DateAdd("s", $uptime, _NowCalcDate()), 10) ; boot date
    Local $bootDays = _DateDiff("D", StringLeft(_NowCalc(), 10), $bootDate) ; days since midnight
    Return SetError(0, $uptime, $bootDays)
EndFunc   ;==>DaysSinceBoot

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@argumentum, I tried with the 1st sample first and on my multiple machines. Prior 12AM the message was correct as usual. But After 12 AM, it still says,

"System was booted up today."

Attaching the 4 snapshots below

This is correct...

Msg 1.jpg = Prior 12AM (11/20/2017)

Msg 2.jpg = Prior 12AM.

 

This should have shown as:

$TodayDate1 > 11/21/2017 (This is the issue)

Msg 3.jpg = After 12AM (11/21/2017)

Msg 4.jpg = This should have given

"System was booted up yesterday."

Msg 1.jpg

Msg 2.jpg

Msg 3.jpg

Msg 4.jpg

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What time zone are you in?

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consolewrite all variables and nowcalc(),  show results of this please such that we can all play along at home

Func DaysSinceBoot()
    ; by argumentum ; https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/191260-date_time_getsystemtime-giving-false-results/?do=findComment&comment=1371960
    Local $ret = _WinAPI_GetTickCount()
    consolewrite($ret & @CRLF)
    If @error Then Return SetError(1, 0, -1)
    Local $uptime = Int($ret / 1000) ; seconds since boot
    consolewrite($uptime & @CRLF)
    Local $bootDate = StringLeft(_DateAdd("s", $uptime, _NowCalc()), 10) ; boot date
    consolewrite(_NowCalc() & @CRLF)
    consolewrite($bootDate & @CRLF)
    Local $bootDays = _DateDiff("D", StringLeft(_NowCalc(), 10), $bootDate) ; days since midnight
    consolewrite($bootDays & @CRLF)
    Return SetError(0, $uptime, $bootDays)
EndFunc   ;==>DaysSinceBoot

 

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So, being in IST, that means that at midnight, _Date_Time_GetSystemTime will return 6:30pm, because you're 5.5 hours ahead of UTC time. You have to take that into account because _Date_Time_GetSystemTime works with UTC time and not local time.

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Perhaps try _Date_Time_GetTimeZoneInformation to find that out, see the help file.

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@argumentum, I tried with the 1st sample

I was showing the error in the code. UTC vs. local time.

Just use post #6 and forget the WMIC stuff.
post #6 does not care about the time zone.

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