Determining the Expiration of AD Domain Passwords

Obtaining the Date a Password Expires
Based on the previous subtasks, we can now calculate the date and time a user's password will expire. Listing 4, WhenPwdExpires.js, is a script that takes a user account name as a command-line argument and displays when that account s password will expire. I decided to use JScript because the JScript Date object stores all date and time values as a number of milliseconds, in Coordinated Universal Time (aka UTC or GMT), since midnight, January 1, 1970. For illustration purposes, I wrote an equivalent VBScript version, Web Listing 4, which you can download from the Windows Scripting Solutions Web site. If you run both versions, you'll notice that the VBScript version can report different expiration times than the JScript version because VBScript date calculations are not locale-independent. . . .