Future Dates Being Reported for BES Client Install Date

(imported topic written by jclark91)

We have a property that attempts to pull back the BES Client install date from each reporting endpoint.

The property uses the inspector: subscribe time of current site as universal string

We reformat the value in the property into the following format: YYYY/MM/DD

On some endpoints, we are seeing dates such as 2009/11/01 and 2012/04/17.

Can someone explain why this might happen? Also, is there a better query to determine the install date of the BES Client?

(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hey Jclark,

The most obvious problem would be that the agent has (or had) its clock set improperly.

Here is some more discussion on the topic of installation time of agent…

http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=1801

Ben