Faking system time

Eduardo G. Andrade
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:51:54 -0000

ops,

nevermind, found it myself, pretty straightforwards...

win32/time.c

hacked it, works beautifully.

but, itd be cool to make it a run-time option (like wine
--sysdate='20000101')

any hint on that?

TIA.



Eduardo G. Andrade wrote:

> Hello all.
>
> I am trying to use WINE to make a windoze-only development environment
> (very rudimentar, command line cross-compiler and stuff)
> under Linux, because GNU make is far superior from the M$'s
'nmake'.
>
> Anyway, I have some trouble with expirating licenses and stuff, and the
> solution is to revert the system date back to some
> valid thing and then compile.
>
> Since I am now running it under WINE (yeah! it *almost* works great), I
> wonder if it is possible to hack wine so it tells
> the executed program some different date and time (changing systime in
> Linux tends to wreak havoc with makefiles and stuff)
>
> Can someone point out where the unix-to-windoze sysdate translation is
> done so I can hack it?
>
> TIA
>


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