wouldn't a fairly simple solution be the adding of a debug
setting/parameter to the application in question that would decrease
the system date inside of the application before further use?

instead of every function requiring the current date and time calling
the API, they'd call a wrapper class instead which either gives them
the system date or an altered one (for testing).

just my $0.02 :)

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:24:33 -0600, Henry Sieff <hsieff (at) orthodon (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> Win2k3 domain
>
> Sometimes, my developers and testers want to change the system date and
> time in order to test things like financial ageing routines and reports.
> These routines and reports also need access to resources which may
> reside on file and SQL servers.
>
> Obviously, when they change there date, their kerberos ticket eventually
> fails and they lose network access.
>
> Is my only solution to create a test domain and modify the date on that
> one. If I do that, will trust between that domain and resources on the
> production domain work so that they can get to those resources, or will
> I need to build out a full functional test environment for them to be
> able to do this.
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Henry Sieff
> Network Engineer
> OCA
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> Cell: (504) 931-4638
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