Dear fellow monks,

I have been using perl to add some rationality into using Active Directory which is working pretty well with the help of Win32::Perm, ActiveDirectory.pm and ldifde(). The neat thing about ldifde() is that it writes text files that you can edit with perl and then process back through it modifying Active Directory in bulk. Anyway, in the output from the ldifde utility you get records that look like this (edited for brevity, linefeeds for clarity): 

dn: CN=Telma Da Silva,OU=Admin Staff,OU=Ursuline,DC=admin,DC=merton,DC
+=sch,DC=uk

badPasswordTime: 126697423010137600

cn: Telma Da Silva
countryCode: 0
displayName: Telma Da Silva
givenName: Telma
homeDirectory: \\Adminserver1\Users\td23
homeDrive: H:

lastLogon: 126706756220988432
pwdLastSet: 126635260714951232

whenChanged: 20020627124211.0Z
whenCreated: 20020417075229.0Z

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whenChanged and whenCreated use ISO 8601 YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.0Z notation as suggested on the M$ site. My question is simple. The badPasswordTime, lastLogon and pwdLastSet seem to share a common time format but what is it? Equally important what Perl widget will change it to a more standard format? Last logon for this user would have been within the last week. It is currently around (126711457518591600) according to M$.

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Active Directory ldifde() time format conversion question by tachyon

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