Trial software and registering

[James Richards]

I have either an occasional system bug, or a dud battery in my Mac 
which keeps resetting the system date to some time in 1970.  
Contrariwise in the year or two approaching 2000 a number of people put 
their computer clocks forward to see what the fabled millennium bug 
might do to them.  Also every year the system clock gets reset twice 
for daylight saving, and I have been known to be working in PM when it 
should be AM.  In any of those circumstances ordinary human error or 
computer failure might lead to an incorrect clock setting.  A system 
clock check is inherently unreliable. If you are going to kick someone 
out on that basis you need to do it nicely and offer them a way back 
in.  In the case of my 'Date & Time' troubles you may need to do it 
more than once.

Regards

James
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James J Richards

jamesjrichards at lineone.net

Tel. +44 (0)15394 43063
On 21 Mar, 2005, at 09:30:01 -0500, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> When the app starts up, store the current time and date.  Then the next
> time the app starts up, compare the current time and date with the one
> you stored.  If the current time and date is before the stored one,
> chances are someone is trying to trick the software.