Posted by Tony Toews [MVP] on 11/29/07 19:04

"Neil" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

>I'm using an Access MDB as a front end to a SQL 7 database. When I place the
>system time in a field in Access, it used the user's clock. I'd like to use
>the SQL Server system time, so that the times will be synchronized. I
>suppose I can just do a pass-through query with "select getdate()." But I
>was wondering if there was some built-in method, either in Access or SQL
>Server. I'm concerned about the overhead of running a pass-through query
>every time I need the current time.

In a corporate network everyone should be using a common time source.

Tony
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