Re: Convert Hex Value to Date from Binary Reg Key

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"RobT" <r_tesoriero@xxxxxxxxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message
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> Thanks for that, makes more sense now.
>
> The only thing is that the month is one off. The app (symantec AV)
displays
> that date as 3/25/2005, but we read that as 2/25/2005 I've checked a
number
> of servers now and the date is always one off.
>
> I have fixed it in my code by just adding 1 to the month each time, but
i'd
> still liek to know why it's a month out.
>
> Any ideas?

Yeah, odd that it is out by a month, but not by a day or a year. Looks like
the month is given as a number from 0 to 11. Why Symantec decided that, I'll
never know. If it is some sort of standard, I still don't know, but will
just have to bow to the inevitable.

/Al

> "Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]" wrote:
>
> >
> > "RobT" <r_tesoriero@xxxxxxxxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message
> > news:36319489-D2C0-484E-880C-5B665A1B24B4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to get a date value from the registry that is stored in
hex in
> > a
> > > binary reg key. The key looks like this.
> > >
> > >
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\intel\landesk\virusprotect6\currentversion]
> > > "PatternFileDate"=hex:23,02,19,00,00,00,00,00
> > >
> > > When I use WMI to query to the binary registry value it returns an
array
> > of
> > > bytes that looks like this:
> > >
> > > - arrValues {...} Array of Variant
> > > (0) 35 Byte
> > > (1) 2 Byte
> > > (2) 25 Byte
> > > (3) 0 Byte
> > > (4) 0 Byte
> > > (5) 0 Byte
> > > (6) 0 Byte
> > > (7) 0 Byte
> > >
> > > What do I do with they array now? How can I get the date from this
array?
> >
> > Good question. Do you know what date this value actually represents
(i.e. is
> > it displayed in human readable form by the software)? My quess would be
Feb
> > 25, 2005 (2005 = 1970 + 35), but without knowing anything else about it
that
> > is only a guess.
> >
> > /Al
> >
> >
> >


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