How get Bios Date time

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how can we get the date/time from bios?

Please Help Me.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 6-Oct-13 21:46pm

basurajkumbhar

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-10-06T22:18:00

Solution 1

Why?
The BIOS date/time is just the same clock that the OS uses to present the date and time to u=you, but in a less friendly form.

Getting the BIOS version won't change anything, so just use:

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Dim dt As DateTime = DateTime.Now

Posted 6-Oct-13 22:18pm

OriginalGriff

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bluesathish 7-Oct-13 4:48am

OG is correct. The system timing and the bios timings are same.

basurajkumbhar 7-Oct-13 5:04am

Thanks for it.
but
when user change the os time that bios date not change.

that's why i want to get Bios date

bluesathish 7-Oct-13 5:08am

Ok, how did u check that your Bios timing is different from OS timing?

OriginalGriff 7-Oct-13 5:26am

That turns out not to be the case in all OS's I know. Certainly, Windows updates the BIOS when you change the time in Windows - and there is only the single clock which Windows reads to get the current time - it doesn't maintain a "software" time separate from the BIOS version.

Is it possible that your PC is set to correct the BIOS time from an external source? Some will sync to a Router, others (like mine) sync the time to an internet time service.

How are you comparign teh Windows time / Bios time? That could be relevant here.