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- SetDate(V1.3) ARP User's Manual SetDate(V1.3)
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- NAME
- SetDate - Set the DOS datestamp for files.
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- SYNOPSIS
- SetDate File/a DATE TIME Q=QUIET/s
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- EXAMPLE
- Set dateformat=0 ; set AmigaDOS style dates.
- SETDATE myfile 01-jan-88 12:15
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- SETDATE foo YESTERDAY
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- SETDATE *.o ; set all files ending in .o to the current
- date.
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- SEE ALSO
- DATE, LIST
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- Page 1 (printed 4/28/89)
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