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- CHKDATE.COM - by Guy C. Gordon
-
- The purpose of CHKDATE is to encourage other people to enter the
- current date when they boot your computer. Unless you have a battery
- backed up clock/calendar, DOS thinks the date is 1/1/80 when you boot,
- and puts that date on all new files. This makes it impossible to tell
- which files are the newest.
-
- CHKDATE is a program that sets the DOS ERRORLEVEL if the date is
- 1/1/80. It may be used in an AUTOEXEC.BAT file to insure that the
- current date is entered at the DATE command. Using the batch commands
- below, processing will loop back to the DATE command if the user does
- not enter a date. Of course, they could CTRL-BREAK out of the loop,
- but don't tell them that.
-
-
- :GETDATE
- DATE
- CHKDATE
- IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO GETDATE
- TIME