Microsoft KB Archive/232227

= SMS: Inaccurate Installation Date Is Reported in the Inventory =

Article ID: 232227

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q232227



SYMPTOMS
After you take an inventory of a Systems Management Server-based client computer, an inaccurate installation time/date may be visible in Operating System properties.



CAUSE
This problem occurs because the operating system installation time/date inventory item is obtained from the following registry key on individual client computers:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\installdate

This value represents a time/date as an offset in seconds from midnight, January 1, 1970. This value is populated incorrectly during the installation of the operating system. When the Systems Management Server inventory agent later converts this value to a time/date to report as inventory, the value is converted correctly, but because the value itself is in error, the time/date reported is inaccurate by several hours.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords: kbbug KB232227

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