convert_msdate

Use the convert_msdate command to specify a Microsoft date value from an Active Directory object field such as pwdLastSet and convert it into a human-readable form.

Syntax

convert_msdate msdate

Options

This command takes no options.

Arguments

This command takes the following argument:

Argument	Type	Description
msdate	string	Required. Specifies the Microsoft date value for conversion.

Return value

This command returns the day of the week, the day of the month, the time of day using a 24-hour clock, the time zone, and the year.

Examples

convert_msdate [get_object_field pwdLastSet]

This example returns converted into a format similar to this:

Thu Mar 24 14:40:26 PDT 2010

The unseen value returned by get_object_field pwdLastSet in this example was 12914026824062500, which was converted to a human-readable time and date.

Related Tcl library commands

None.