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Subject: Re: Screwupds
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Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 00:51:37 EST
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From: Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer <mwm%ucbopal@BERKELEY.EDU>

I can't help with the other problems, but:

> 3) A gripe about Preferences and the date command: I CANNOT get
> either date OR preferences to save the date!!!

I'm assuming by "save the date," you mean past reboots, not just
setting it to the correct time.

When AmigaDOS boots, it sets the date to the creation date of the
oldest file on the disk (microware take note - OS/9 could use such a
feature).  Since setting the date with date or preferences doesn't
create any files, you haven't changed the date the system will set
when it boots.

However, if you cause a file to be written on, you have changed the
date. From preferences, this is easy: exit with "save." From the CLI,
I tend to do things like "date >:now" to set the date (stolen from a
script supplied with the C compiler). Either way works.

	<mike