OpenEuphoria

Re: System date & time

• Posted by "Carl R. White" <C.R.White at SCM.BRAD.AC.UK> Feb 09, 1999
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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Arlie Codina wrote:

] I'm new to Euphoria (1 week) can anyone help me?

Welcome to our world! :)

] How do I change programatically system date and time?

As far as I know, you can't change the date or time with Euphoria. You can
read it with the date() function, but it's not rewritable back to DOS or
Windows [I'll drop a feature _hint_ here for Rob C. :)].

A DOS system call may be what you're after.
Try:

    system("echo.|time hh:mm:ss",2) -- the 'echo.|' is important!

and:

    system("echo.|date mm/dd/yyyy",2)

    or depending on how your computer is set up:

    system("echo.|date dd/mm/yyyy",2)

The 'echo.|' sections _are_ important. Without them the computer will wait
for you to press a key. Not good in a running program.

HTH,
Carl

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