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Hi

I try to get from my Windows the install date
And have found this c++ source, why can i not get the date with masm32?


.data
sKey db "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion",0
sValueName db "InstallDate",0
szFormat   db "%d",0
rtype        DWORD REG_DWORD
ftLength   DWORD sizeof FILETIME
.data?

buff      db 255 dup(?)
hKey     DWORD ?
ft    FILETIME <?>

.code

Invoke RegOpenKeyEx,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, ADDR sKey, NULL, KEY_READ,ADDR hKey
.If (eax== ERROR_SUCCESS )
  .If (hKey != NULL)
      invoke RegQueryValueEx, hKey, ADDR sValueName, NULL, ADDR rtype,ADDR ft,ADDR ftLength
     .If (EAX == ERROR_SUCCESS)
          invoke crt_strftime, ADDR buff, SIZEOF buff, CTEXT ("%c"),ADDR ft
          invoke MessageBox, NULL,addr buff, ADDR buff, MB_OK
     .EndIf   
     invoke RegCloseKey, hKey
  .EndIf   
.EndIf


   ;  struct tm* p = localtime((const time_t*)data);
   ; strftime((char*)installDate, MAX_PATH, "%c", p);



    HKEY regKey;
    UCHAR data[MAX_PATH] = "";
    DWORD lengthData = sizeof(data);
    UCHAR installDate[MAX_PATH] = "";

    RegOpenKeyEx(
        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
        (LPCSTR)regPath,
        0,
        KEY_READ,
        &regKey);

    RegQueryValueEx(
        regKey,
        (LPCSTR)regToQuery,
        NULL,
        &valueType,
        (LPBYTE)data,
        &lengthData);

        RegCloseKey(regKey);
   
        struct tm* p = localtime((const time_t*)data);
    strftime((char*)installDate, MAX_PATH, "%c", p);

    return (UCHAR*)strdup((char*)installDate);
}


Please help me
Thanks,

give this a try...

Thanks it works

Why can i not use crt_strftime? then is the code small

you may use any code you like to display it   :U
what your code is missing....
the dword time retrieved from the registry is in "time_t" format
it represents the number of seconds elapsed since midnight on January 1, 1970

so - first, you want to convert it to 64-bit "file time" format
to do that, (FileTime) = 10000000 * (time_t) + 116444736000000000

then, convert it to "system time" format to get all the pieces by using the FileTimeToSystemTime API function
also, your registry-read code had a few little problems

but - once you have the SYSTEMTIME structure filled, you may use any method you like to display the information