BASIC FUNCTIONS
SECTION 5.5
5.'i.2
DATE$
Function DATE$ returns a ten character string including the day,
month and year separated by dashes, It may be used both as
a statement and a variable.
Syntax A$ = DATE$ or DATE.$ = 8$
Example 10 DATE$ =
11
5/12/86
11
20 PRINT DATF.$
Remarks The ten character string returned by DATE$ is in the format
MM-DD-YYYY. As in the example, when DATE$ is used as a
variable leading zeros may be omitted and the year
defaulted to 19yy,
DATE$ will accept /or : or - delimiters to set the date,
but will always print the date using-.
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