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- Date(V1.3) ARP User's Manual Date(V1.3)
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- NAME
- DATE - Set or display the system date.
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- SYNOPSIS
- DATE Date Time TO=VER/k
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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.
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- Both the display of the date and the setting of the date are
- determined by the ARP environment variable 'dateformat'.
- This determines one of several international formats for
- displaying and setting the date. If 'dateformat' is not set
- or if its value is zero, the AmigaDOS format is used. Here
- is a list of the legal values for dateformat, and the
- corresponding input and output formats:
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- 0 This is the default AmigaDOS format, DD-MMM-YY is used
- for both input and output. Note that if datetime is
- undefined, or the value is illegal, this will be the
- default option.
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- 1 International format, YY-MM-DD is the format.
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- 2 USA format, MM-DD-YY is the format.
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- 3 Canadian format, DD-MM-YY is the format.
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- Note that dateformat controls the format for the input
- string as well as the output display. You never have to
- enter leading zeros, and you may always use words like
- SATURDAY, YESTERDAY, TOMORROW, etc.
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- EXAMPLE
- SET dateformat=0 ; Use default AmigaDOS format.
- Date 1-jan-88 ; set the date, using AmigaDOS format
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- Page 1 (printed 4/28/89)
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