Purpose

Set or retrieve the system date.

Syntax

DATE$ = s$      ' sets system date according to s$

s$ = DATE$      ' s$ now contains system date

Remarks

Assigning a properly formatted string value to DATE$ sets the system date. You can also assign DATE$ to a string variable, which stores 10 characters in the form "mm-dd-yyyy", where mm represents the month, dd the day, and yyyy the year.

To change the date, your date string must be formatted in one of the following ways:

mm-dd-yy

mm/dd/yy

mm-dd-yyyy

mm/dd/yyyy

For example, DATE$ = "11-09-84" sets the system date to November 9, 1984.

Restrictions

The year assigned to the DATE$ system variable must be within the range 1980 to 2099. DATE$ never returns locale-specific date formats. When assigning a two digit year, any value less than 81 will be assumed to be in the 2000's and any value greater than 80 will be assumed to be in the 1900's.

See also

DAYNAME$, MONTHNAME$, POWERTIME, TIME$