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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: CLI Summary
Message-ID: <974@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30-Nov-85 16:56:51 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 30 16:56:51 1985
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Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: CONTEL CADO Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <578@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> CC004049%BROWNVM.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA writes:
>DATE            Set system time/date.  Unlike MSDOS, the syntax is quite
>                strict:  You MUST type the 24-hour time, then the date in
>                26-Nov-85 format.
>                (Why didn't CBM-Amiga include a hardware clock?
>                Setting DATE on boot-up is a real annoyance.)

I discovered a couple of 'cute' things about the date command, you can 
specify the date as 'today' if you only want to change the time, it also
understands 'tomorrow', 'yesterday', and all the days of the week.  Days
of the week will set the date to the date for the NEXT day forward of that
name from when the date was before the date change command.  I too, prefer
a battery backed up clock, but if AT LEAST the date command would update
the date somewhere on disk so the next time you boot you have the date
as of the last time you set it would make these features more useful.
I'd then be able to use the 'date today hh:mm' or 'date tomorrow hh:mm'
more often, as now the date gets further away every day because only the
preferences utility will update the saved date on disk.  (unless someone
out there knows of a parameter you can pass 'date' to have it update it's
last saved date somehow.)

Keith Doyle
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