System Date

[notlogan]

Is it possible to get the system date and abort the install if the system date is outside a given range?

[linder]

Hello,

Yes, absolutely no problem. You have several completely different options to handle this. For example, the "Expiration Date Checking.sb8" example (part of the Examples Package). Perhaps this already helps? If not, let me know what you need and I can tell you how to do it.

Friedrich

[notlogan]

I was trying something like that....but your example looks better for my purposes....however....

I did pretty much exactly what you did. My INSTALLERDATE gets set to 20130829 then my DATE_TODAY gets set to 2013/08/29. When it does the Julian conversion it converts DATE1 to 2456534 and DATE2 to 0.


As a side note - I can't do: Set Variable %INSTALLERDATE% to FUNCTION:Julian Day (%INSTALLERDATE%)? Just saving an additional variable.

[notlogan]

OOOOPppppssssss...disregard previous reply....I found the missing format from my code.....D'OH

[linder]

Thanks for the update!

Friedrich

[notlogan]

And it appears you CAN do: Set Variable %INSTALLERDATE% to FUNCTION:Julian Day (%INSTALLERDATE%)...must be my old FORTRAN training....saving a variable....

[linder]

Looks good

Friedrich