http://www.mentasm.com/~mramiga/c/date.html (Amiga Plus Extra No. 5/97, 05/1997)Format: DATE [(day)] [(date)] [(time)} [TO | VER (filename)] Template: DAY,DATE, TIME,TO=VER/K Location: C:
Date with no argument displays the currently set system time and date, including the day of the week. Time is displayed using a 24-hour clock.
DATE (date) sets only the date. the format for entry and display of the (date) is DD-MMM-YY (day-month-year). The hyphens between the arguments are required. A leading zero is the date is not necessary. The number or the first three letters of the m
If the date is already seet, you can reset it by specifying a day name. You can also use tomorrow or yesterday as the (day) argument. You cannot specify a day name to change the date to more than seven days into the future.
Date (time) sets the time. The format for entry and display of (time) is HH:MM:SS (hours:minutes:seconds). Seconds is optional.
If your amiga does not have a battery backed-up hardware clock and you do not set the date, when the system boots it sets the date to the date of the most recently created file on the boot disk.
If you specify the TO or VER option, followed by a file name the output of the DATE command is sent to that file, overwriting any existing contents.
Adjustments made with the DATE only change the software clock and not survive powering off the system. To set the battery backed-up hardware clock from the shell, you must set the date and use SETCLOCK SAVE.
Although DATE accepts and displays the date and time in a single format, programs such as clock display the date and time according to your Locale country setting.