Re: Setting the Amiga system date and time

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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1990 14:57

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In article <77.25d0c638@intersil.uucp> hamilton@intersil.uucp
(Fred Hamilton) writes:

>I can read the Amiga system time with DateStamp().
>
>But how do I SET it?
>
>Thanks.  (I'm installing a battery backed up clock in my 1000.)

     I couldn't figure it out either, so I cheated - I just built
an appropriate DATE command and Execute()d it.  Working in assembly
language I got my program down to 400 bytes.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
"I have never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time."  -- Steely Dan

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