Flags: Date Format (–42)

Input/Output:

Level 1/Argument 1

Level 1/Item 1

date

Example: If the current date is May 12, 2010, if flag –42 is clear, and if the display mode is Standard, DATE returns 5.12201. (The trailing zeros are dropped.)

See also: DATE+, DDAYS, TIME, TSTR

DATE

Type: Command

Description: Set Date Command: Sets the system date to date.

date has the form MM.DDYYYY or DD.MMYYYY, depending on the state of flag –42. MM is month, DD is day, and YYYY is year. If YYYY is not supplied, the current specification for the year is used. The range of allowable dates is January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2090. Inputs between January 1, 1991 and December 31, 1999 are silently rejected by →DATE; no error is reported and the system date is left unchanged.

Access:

…ÓTOOLS DATE

( Óis the right-shift of the 9 key).

 

&9DATE

 

Flags:

Date Format (–42)

 

Input/Output:

 

 

Level 1/Argument 1

 

Level 1/Item 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

date

 

 

If flag –42 is

 

Example:

set and the current system year is 2005, then 28.07 →DATE sets the system date as

 

July 28, 2005.

 

 

 

See also:

→TIME

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DATE+

Command

 

 

 

Type:

 

 

 

Description:

Date Addition Command: Returns a past or future date, given a date in argument 1/level 2 and a

 

number of days in argument 2/level 1. If xdays is negative, DATE+ calculates a past date. The

 

range of allowable dates is October 15, 1582, to December 31, 9999.

 

Access:

…ÓTOOLS LDATE+

( Óis the right-shift of the 9 key).

 

&9LDATE+

 

 

 

Flags:

Date Format (–42)

 

 

 

Input/Output:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Level 2/Argument 1

Level 1/Argument 2

 

Level 1/Item 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

date1

xdays

datenew

 

 

 

 

 

 

See also:

DATE, DDAYS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DBUG

Operation

 

 

 

Type:

 

 

 

Description: Debug Operation: Starts program execution, then suspends it as if HALT were the first program command.

DBUG is programmable.

Access: !°LLRUN DBUG ( °is the left-shift of the Nkey).

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