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A extraordinary time problem ! - 8/29/2006 10:23:45 PM

electro

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Well I got a very simple script but it seems its get trouble with running as task and identifying the time as standard time.
The hole story short:
I have a server(SBS2003) that I use shadow copies every weekday. To do this I have created as script
that takes the snapshot. The script is runned every third hour. Since I dont want to have a lot of snapshots made when nobody
is working I created this little start code.

Const strStartTime="6:00:00"
Const strEndTime="17:00:00"
strStartTime= TimeValue(strStartTime)
strEndTime= TimeValue(strEndTime)
If Hour(Now())>Hour(strStartTime) And Hour(Now())<Hour(strEndTime) Then
' wscript.echo Hour(strStartTime) & " " & Hour(Now()) & " " & Hour(strEndTime)
' -- code from MS scripting page to create snapshot
end if

Now to the funny part:
If I run it as a user I get it to work very well but if I a use a task it doesnt work correctly.
The two snapshot it does create succesfully is made 8:30 and 11:30 and there is supposibly be another at 14:30 but it never gets made.
Runned the scheduled script for a week and the story is the same. It never runs after 12:00 if it is scheduled. My guess this acctually a
problem in how to identify the time in the scheduler. I think that the hour result is 2 or 2 PM not 14 and thats the problem. Any suggestion to
to go around this. Will try do a scheduled script that saves the hour to a textfile.
Any suggestion to solve this(almost certain I am right)

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RE: A extraordinary time problem ! - 8/29/2006 11:17:19 PM

ehvbs

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Hi electro,

I think your diagnosis is correct; as a therapy I would use the Date/TimeSerial
functions and comparisions of Date/Time variables to avoid any interference
from VBScript doing something (stupid?) because of the locale.

This code

should show what I mean.

Good luck!

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RE: A extraordinary time problem ! - 8/29/2006 11:21:21 PM

electro

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I solved it... I totaly embaressed what the error was... :)
It was not in the code it was in me... or rather of my interpretation of windows task scheduler advanced setting :)
sorry if I got you all chasing ghosts
thanks for your help

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RE: A extraordinary time problem ! - 8/29/2006 11:22:07 PM

DiGiTAL.SkReAM

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electro,

Yes. In Windows, the short date/tiem format is probably hosing your setup. You should go with a method for normalizing your date/time format, such as is shown here:
http://www.winguides.com/scripting/reference.php?category=23

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