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From: biggers@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mark Biggers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: CLI Summary
Message-ID: <4254@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 07:35:58 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 07:35:58 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 07:17:03 EST
References: <578@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> <974@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: biggers@topaz.UUCP (Mark Biggers)
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <974@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>
>I discovered a couple of 'cute' things about the date command, you can 
>...
>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'
>...
>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
>#  {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd
>#  cadovax!keithd@ucla-locus.arpa

Yep, one of the earliest things I discovered about Preferences was that
it always wrote a file called 'now' in the root directory when the date
was updated.  So, before you shut down the Amiga, go to df0: root and
type:

date >now

That should update the 'last' date saved for the system.

mark

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Mark Biggers
New Brunswick, NJ
(201) 249-7939

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