Change system date at startup.

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Is it possible to change the system date during the boot process ?
In windows98 you could set the date in autoexec using a set command.
eg set date=04-04-05
Is there anyway to acomplish the same thing in xp?
Thanks

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Galen wrote:
> In news:ecPv62zOFHA.2132@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl,
> quovadis <quovadis@primus.com> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
>
>>Is it possible to change the system date during the boot process ?
>>In windows98 you could set the date in autoexec using a set command.
>>eg set date=04-04-05
>>Is there anyway to acomplish the same thing in xp?
>>Thanks
>
>
> My question is why do you ask?
Because I want to set the date to a certain date at startup.
>XP includes a handy dandy feature to sync
> your clock automatically so if you did set the date and had the feature
> enabled it would only change back to the real date and on top of that
> changing the date has caused many problems for other users in the past.
Thats why I dont have that "feature" enabled and why I require to set
the date to a precise date for compatability.
>
> Galen
Thanks.

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Jetro wrote:
> You can place DATE and other commands in the user's or machine's context at
> HKCU|HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
>
> Strictly speaking the *SET DATE* command doesn't set the date but DATE does.
>
Thanks for that.
However I put a date=03-04-05 in both places but nothing happend.
am I missing something?