Agilent Technologies E1301B SYSTem DATE?, Example Setting the system Date, Systdate 1991,09,08

SYSTem :DATE?

•Related Commands: SYST:TIME, SYST:TIME?, SYST:DATE?

•*RST Condition: *RST does not change the setting of the calendar.

Example Setting the system Date
SYST:DATE 1991,09,08	set SEP 8, 1991

:DATE? SYSTem:DATE? [MIN MAX,MIN MAX,MIN MAX] returns:

•When no parameter is sent: the current system date in the form

+ YYYY,+ MM,+ DD, where YYYY can be the year 1980 through 2079, MM can be the month 1 through 12, and DD can be the day 1 through 31.

•When parameters are sent: the minimum or maximum allowable values for each of the three parameters. The parameter count must be three.

Example Querying the system date
	SYST:DATE?	ask for current date
	input values of year,month,day	read back date
:ERRor?
	SYSTem:ERR? queries the system’s error queue. The response format is:
	< error number> ,"< error description string> ".
Comments	• As system errors are detected, they are placed in the System Instrument
	error queue. The error queue is first in, first out. This means that if
	several error messages are waiting in the queue, each SYST:ERR? query
	will return the oldest error message, and that message will be deleted
	from the queue.
	• If the error queue fills to 30 entries, the last error in the queue is replaced
	with error -350,"Too may errors". No further errors are accepted by the
	queue until space becomes available using SYST:ERR?, or the queue is
	cleared using *CLS.
	• The SYST:ERR? command can be used to determine if any
	configuration errors occurred during the power-on sequence.
	• When SYST:ERR? is sent while the error queue is empty, the System
	Instrument responds with + 0,"No error".
	• Related Commands: *ESE, *ESR?, *SRE
	• *RST Condition: Error queue is cleared
Example Read all error messages from, and empty the error queue.
	loop statement	loop to read all errors
	SYST:ERR?	ask for error message
	enter statement	input the error (a number), and
		error message (a string)
	until statement	until error number is 0

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