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Date(V1.3, 2.x, 3.x) (Locatin C:))
NAME
DATE - Set or display the system date.
SYNOPSIS
DATE [Date] [Time] [TO=VER]
DESCRIPTION
Date is used to set the systems idea of the current
date and time, or to display the systems idea of the
current date and time.
To display the current system time simply use Date
with no arguments. You may specify a TO or verification
file to send the date to, if no TO file is specified, the
date is displayed in the current window.
To set the time you use the format HH:MM:SS where H
stands for hours, M stands for minutes, and S stands for
seconds. Leading zeroes are optional for all versions
except 1.2. 1.2 requires that you include a leading zero
before the 10th month.
Commodore has a very strict formula for the date
formats. If you type a two digit year from 78 to 99
AmigaDos will translate that as 1978 to 1999. If you type
a two digit number from 00 to 45 AmigaDos will translate
that as 2000 to 2045. You cannot enter a year from 1946
to 1977.
If you accidently set a year from 0 to 45 all files
created will have the datestamp from the 21st century.
When you finally discover your mistake, and change the
date back to a correct date, that file will be
datestamped 'Future' since the 21st century is in the
future.
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and the rest of the days of
the week can be used as flags. The system will evaluate
the day then advance the system date to match the
specified day of the week. So, if it is Monday and you
specify Thursday, the system clock will advance by three
days.
FOR 1.3 Only: SETCLOCK is used in the
startup-sequence to automatically read the system's
hardware clock (if present). The A1000 and A500 did not
come with a clock installed. Therefor, AmigaDOS would
check the boot disk for the date of most recent file and
sets the system date according to that. The Date command
is then used to set the proper date and time. This was
lost anytime you rebooted the computer or utilized the
SETCLOCK SAVE command.
FOR 2.x/3.x: The clock is read automatically by the
system without utilizing the SETCLOCK command. Therefor,
you will never see it listed anywhere.
EXAMPLES
1. To use default AmigaDOS format.
SET dateformat=0
2. To set the date, using AmigaDOS format
Date 1-jan-88
3. To set the date to the next day's date and the
time to 12:00
Date Tomorrow 12:00