How to set date for a specific program?

after june 2008 the game gears of war is giving error and not running.
so when I want to play it, I need to change date about 6 years.
so I'm curious is there anyway to set the time for a single program or change date easier(one click)?

mpower

Posted 2014-06-26T06:30:27.060

Reputation: 222

There is a patch for Gears of War that you have to download. Look for "gears of war windows patch certificate" on google. I can't give you the proper link because I can't search for it here (firewall issues). You can look up the problem you have on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gears_of_War#Digital_certificate_issue)

– private_meta – 2014-06-26T07:20:17.127

To expand what private_meta said, the official page is dead now but the download links are still working. Here's an archived version of the actual page: http://web.archive.org/web/20110528061546/http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/pc/qfe1.htm

– and31415 – 2014-06-26T09:54:24.847

@and31415 the update is not working because I'm using an edited startup.exe to fix little other problems and can't find original startup in internet or anywhere else. – mpower – 2014-06-26T12:46:22.490

@mpower As a workaround you might try RunAsDate.

– and31415 – 2014-06-26T16:35:20.620

@and31415 it didn't work.not changing time soon enough. – mpower – 2014-06-27T08:58:51.787

Related question for Linux – Cristian Ciupitu – 2014-06-27T11:09:21.180

Answers

solved!
I just created a .bat file with these contents:

FOR /f "tokens=2-4 skip=1 delims=(-)" %%G IN ('echo.^|date') DO (
FOR /f "tokens=2 delims= " %%A IN ('date /t') DO (
    SET v_first=%%G
    SET v_second=%%H
    SET v_third=%%I
    SET v_all=%%A
    )
)

SET %v_first%=%v_all:~0,2%
SET %v_second%=%v_all:~3,2%
SET %v_third%=%v_all:~6,4%
SET DATE2= %MM%/%DD%/%YY%

date 06/01/2008
start /wait "test" "C:\Program Files\Gears of War\Binaries\Startup.exe"
date %DATE2%

now you can use it as a oneclick date change program(instead of game shortcut)
it sets date to 2008 and waits for game to end then sets date to now.

mpower

Posted 2014-06-26T06:30:27.060

Reputation: 222

Won't this fail if you play past midnight? :-) – Cristian Ciupitu – 2014-06-27T10:12:39.503

@CristianCiupitu I will fix it when I learn that ... language :-) – mpower – 2014-06-27T12:13:12.773

Technically speaking, the application Gears of War uses Windows' API to determine current date/time.

This means, that Windows does not set date for each and every application; instead the application use the current date provided by the OS.

So, you have to change date every time.

Barun

Posted 2014-06-26T06:30:27.060

Reputation: 121