Tandy 1000 MS-DOS Reference Manual page 79

DATE
DATE
[mm-dd-yyyy]
Chapter 6 / Command Reference
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Enters or changes the system date. This date is recorded in the
directory for any files you create or change. You can also use
this command to display the current date.
MS-DOS is programmed to change the months and years cor-
rectly, taking into account leap years and the number of days in
the months.
Parameters
mm-dd-yyyy
specifies the date in numerical form.
mm
(month) is
a one- or two-digit number in the range 1-12.
dd
(day of month)
is a one- or two-digit number from 1-31.
yyyy
(year) is a two-
digit number in the range 80-99 (1980 is assumed) or a four-
digit number in the range 1980-2099.
Notes and Suggestions
• If the month or day is a number less than ten, it is not neces-
sary to include a leading zero (for example, 09/09/84). When
MS-DOS stores and displays the date, it includes a leading
zero in a one-digit day and excludes it from a one-digit month
(for example, it stores 9/09/1984).
• You can separate the date, month, and year with either
slashes, hyphens, or periods.
• If you omit the
mm-dd-yyyy
parameter, DATE displays the
current date and asks you to enter the new date. If you do not
want to change the date, press
I
ENTER
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If you do want to
change it, enter it in the
mm-dd-yyyy
format.
• You can change the date from the keyboard or from a batch
file. (Normally, MS-DOS displays a date prompt each time you
start up your system. It does not, however, if you use an auto-
exec.bat file. Therefore, you may want to include a DATE com-
mand in that file.)
• When you change the date known to the system, you also
change the date in any application program you use. This can
be very handy.
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