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RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by myself248 »

tgtweak wrote: post #14

Nir's applications are gems. They are extremely lightweight, sane and well documented, static, cost nothing and receive regular updates (19 released updates since July...) - all by one guy who actually answers his emails and blogs excellent content with regular frequency (reached out about a library based on one of his apps and he took the time to reply and explain the reasoning for not publishing as a library). Real…

Make use of the "donate" link in the sidebar!

I have no idea how much he brings in from thankful folks like us who recognize how much time he's saved us, but it's surely not as much as it should be. I set aside a chunk of money every year for supporting software authors, and Nir comes up in my list every few years.

Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by biryani_chicken »

vxNsr wrote: post #20

Aside from the trial thing, what’s the use case for this?

Games that use the system clock to timegate stuff. Nier Replicant, for example, uses the system clock for its gardening minigame. You have to wait 24 real hours for your plants to grow, or change the date in your system.

Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by peterangular »

lanerobertlane wrote: post #13

I'd just like to use this comment to show appreciation of Nirsoft's stuff. Great useful single function utilities for practically anything, for free, without any catch. Many times I've needed to do something that seems simple but isn't exposed easily, and rather than figure it out myself there's a gui or cli app that just does exactly what I need.

It's so difficult to find trustworthy independent publishers in the Windows world and Nirsoft nails it. Tools that are designed to empower users with zero strings attached - seriously helpful stuff.

Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by sundvor »

tgtweak wrote: post #14

Nir's applications are gems. They are extremely lightweight, sane and well documented, static, cost nothing and receive regular updates (19 released updates since July...) - all by one guy who actually answers his emails and blogs excellent content with regular frequency (reached out about a library based on one of his apps and he took the time to reply and explain the reasoning for not publishing as a library). Real…

He's like the Stephen King of programming - just extremely prolific.

His full list of tools is jaw dropping:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/index.html

(The IP tools have been very helpful in the past. I've got a new install now and that's a reminder for myself to get set up again; will use the donate link too.)

Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by svnpenn »

I would like to take this opportunity to note that all NirSoft tools are closed source.

Its nice that "Nir" or whoever has made them freely available, but when the day comes that they are not updated anymore, because of lack of interest, or life changes or whatever, all the effort that went into making them is lost to history. No one will be able to fork the project, or continue on with the work, as the source code was never released.

Re: RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

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Post by [deleted] »

tgtweak wrote: post #14

Nir's applications are gems. They are extremely lightweight, sane and well documented, static, cost nothing and receive regular updates (19 released updates since July...) - all by one guy who actually answers his emails and blogs excellent content with regular frequency (reached out about a library based on one of his apps and he took the time to reply and explain the reasoning for not publishing as a library). Real…

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