<div class="content" name="R_DhcpV4FailoverGetSystemTime" uuid="570db742-5f9c-47e2-8642-f8ee14033b40"><p>The <b>R_DhcpV4FailoverGetSystemTime</b> method is used to
return the current time on the DHCP server.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> DWORD R_DhcpV4FailoverGetSystemTime(
   [in, unique, string] DHCP_SRV_HANDLE ServerIpAddress,
   [out] LPDWORD pTime
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>ServerIpAddress: </b>The IP address/host name of
the DHCP server. This parameter is unused.</p><p><b>pTime: </b>This is a pointer to type <a href="../ms-dtyp/262627d8-3418-4627-9218-4ffe110850b2" data-linktype="relative-path">DWORD</a>
and returns the current time, in seconds elapsed since midnight, January 1,
1970, <a href="a9d6a415-4de6-4058-befe-ca2e42764485#gt_f2369991-a884-4843-a8fa-1505b6d5ece7" data-linktype="relative-path">Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC)</a>, on the DHCP server. The caller of the API must allocate the
memory for this parameter.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>A 32-bit unsigned integer value
that indicates return status. A return value ERROR_SUCCESS (0x00000000)
indicates that the operation was completed successfully. Otherwise, it contains
a Win32 error code, as specified in <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>.
This error code value can correspond to a DHCP-specific failure, which takes a
value between 20000 and 20123, or any generic failure.</p><dl>
<dd>
<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Return value/code</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Description</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>0x00000000 ERROR_SUCCESS</td>
  <td>The call was successful.</td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd></dl><p>The opnum field value for this method is 99.</p><p>When processing this call, the DHCP server MUST do the
following:</p><ul><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Return ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER if the <i>pTime</i> parameter is
NULL.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Return current DHCP server time, in seconds elapsed since
midnight, January 1, 1970, UTC, in the <i>pTime</i> parameter.</p>
</li><li><p><span><span> 
</span></span>Return ERROR_SUCCESS.</p>
</li></ul><p><b>Exceptions Thrown:</b> No exceptions are thrown beyond
those thrown by the underlying RPC protocol specified in <a href="../ms-rpce/290c38b1-92fe-4229-91e6-4fc376610c15" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-RPCE]</a>.</p></div>