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SetDate(V1.3) ARP User's Manual SetDate(V1.3)
NAME
SetDate - Set the DOS datestamp for files.
SYNOPSIS
SetDate File/a DATE TIME Q=QUIET/s
DESCRIPTION
SetDate changes the last modification date of a file. This
is useful with programs such as Make, or if a file was
inadvertently created when the operating system was set to a
bad date or time. The last modification date may be viewed
using the List command. As with all programs which accept
date and time information, you may use words such as
YESTERDAY, MONDAY, etc., to specify the date.
In the ARP version of SetDate, you can of course use
wildcard patterns to specify more than one filename. If you
supply only the filename to SetDate, the current date will
be assumed. This is probably the most common use of a
program like SetDate, and is very convenient (it performs
similarly to the Unix Touch command).
Like all ARP programs that handle date input and output,
SetDate uses the value of the environment variable
'dateformat' to determine the style of input entry it
expects.
EXAMPLE
Set dateformat=0 ; set AmigaDOS style dates.
SETDATE myfile 01-jan-88 12:15
SETDATE foo YESTERDAY
SETDATE *.o ; set all files ending in .o to the current
date.
SEE ALSO
DATE, LIST
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