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- Date(V1.3, 2.x, 3.x) (Locatin C:))
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- NAME
- DATE - Set or display the system date.
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- SYNOPSIS
- DATE [Date] [Time] [TO=VER]
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- EXAMPLES
- 1. To use default AmigaDOS format.
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- SET dateformat=0
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- 2. To set the date, using AmigaDOS format
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- Date 1-jan-88
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- 3. To set the date to the next day's date and the
- time to 12:00
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- Date Tomorrow 12:00
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