Re: reading the cmos hardware mainboard clock and updating the software clock

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:48

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Peted wrote:

>Can anyone advise me please how i can go about (in c++ builder)
>reading the cmos mainboard hardware clock,

I have a feeling these won't work in XP, but you could try....
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcemain4/html/cmconReal-TimeClock.asp

> and using that info to update the windows XP software clock.

See	SetSystemTime()
Or 	SetLocalTime()

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