Purpose |
Set or retrieve the system date. |
Syntax |
DATE$ = s$ ' sets system date according to s$ s$ = DATE$ ' s$ now contains system date |
Remarks |
Assigning a properly formatted
To change the date, your date string must be formatted in one of the following ways: mm-dd-yy mm/dd/yy mm-dd-yyyy mm/dd/yyyy For example, DATE$ = "11-09-84" sets the system date to November 9, 1984. |
Restrictions |
The year assigned to the DATE$ system variable must be within the range 1980 to 2099. DATE$ never returns locale-specific date formats. When assigning a two digit year, any value less than 81 will be assumed to be in the 2000's and any value greater than 80 will be assumed to be in the 1900's. |
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