Article ID: 555936 - Last Review: July 9, 2007 - Revision: 1.0

How to convert date/time attributes in Active Directory to standard time format

Author: Shijaz Abdulla MVP
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SUMMARY

This article describes how attributes containing a date/time value can be converted to standard meaningful date/time formats.
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Abstract

The Active Directory stores date/time values as the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since the 0 hour on January 1, 1601 till the date/time that is being stored. The time is always stored in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in the Active Directory. Some examples of Active Directory attributes that store date/time values are LastLogon, LastLogonTimestamp and LastPwdSet. In order to obtain the date/time value stored in these attributes into a standard format, some conversion is required. This article describes how this conversion can be done.
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Procedure

  1. Obtain the value of the Active Directory attribute that you want to convert. There are many ways to extract values of Active Directory attributes. Using ADSI Edit is one method.
  2. Open the Command Prompt.
  3. Type the following command: w32tm.exe /ntte [time in Windows NT time format]
  4. The date/time value is converted to local time and displayed.
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Example

The command
 
w32tm.exe /ntte 128271382742968750
 
will yield
 
148462 05:57:54.2968750 - 6/24/2007 8:57:54 AM (local time)
 
on a computer that is in a time zone three hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT +3:00). Notice that the first half of the output displays the time in GMT (05:57:54) and then converts it by adding the Time Zone Offset (8:57:54).
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional
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