What version of TurboActivate are you using? What's the return code for IsDateValid? Are you messing around with your system clock? If so, note that IsDateValid() detects a lot of that and just say "nah, the dates not valid because the clock has been messed with".
IsDateValid returning strange response
marcedhkHi,
I'm having an issue with the IsDateValid function. I created a custom date field called expire_date, and put a date in the future when the license should expire. When I run my function, it does what it is supposed to, in that it returns 0 when the expiration date is in the future, and 1 when the date is already passed. However, when the date is valid, calling print_ta_error does not return TA_OK according to the values given in the documentation, but rather it returns "Unknown". Grateful if you could take a look at the code and see if the problem is on my end - I don't want to risk there being some issue that might cause problems later on.
hr = GetFeatureValue(_T("expire_date"), 0, 0); TCHAR * featureValue; featureValue = (TCHAR *)malloc(hr * sizeof(TCHAR)); hr = GetFeatureValue(_T("expire_date"), featureValue, hr);
if (hr == TA_OK) { if (strcmp(featureValue, "1970-01-01 00:00:00") == 0) { //this special date means the license is permanent, so ignore expiry date printf("Permanent License is installed. "); } else { printf("License Expiry Date: %s\n", featureValue); char s[21]; size_t i; struct tm tim; time_t now; now = time(NULL); tim = *(localtime(&now)); i = strftime(s,21,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\n",&tim); printf("Current Date: %s\n", s); hr = IsDateValid(_T(featureValue), TA_HAS_NOT_EXPIRED); print_ta_error(hr, "Date check result: "); }
} else printf("Getting feature failed: %d\n", hr);
free(featureValue); }
marcedhkThat's the strange thing - running the print_ta_error function should give me "Date Check result: TA_OK:0" but instead I'm getting "Date Check result: (Unknown:0)" when the date is not expired and "Date Check result: (Unknown:1)" when the date is expired. So I am getting the correct code numbers, but not the TA's which makes me feel something is wrong somewhere.
To the best of my recollection, this was happening before I started playing with the computer's dates, but seeing as I had to be monkey-ing around to get the code running in the first place I cannot be sure of that. However, I would think that if the system date was suspect it would return "1" all the time? What's the procedure for returning things to a pure state so I can check and see if that's what's messing things up?
marcedhkSorry - need to correct something - when it the date is not expired, I get "Date check result: (Unknown: 0)" and when it is expired I do get (TA_FAIL).
0 is a success. 0 is TA_OK. 1 is a failure., 1 is TA_FAIL. It sounds like everything is working correctly. I don't know why your "print_ta_error " isn't working. We didn't write that. All you need is a simple if statement:
if (IsDateValid(featureValue, TA_HAS_NOT_EXPIRED) == TA_OK){ // date is valid}else{ // date has expired.}