Changing Date and Time

[S.L. Black]

Whenever I try to change the date within a program to update the computer
date and time, I get the message "illegal function"
The code I wrote will allow me to change the date and time, but when the date and time are null, I get the "illegal function" error.
How can I change the computer date and time within a program without closing the program and entering dos to do it?.
Thanks.

[Lance Edmonds]

As described in the online-help, use the built-in DATE$ system variable:

a$ = "01-01-2000" ' mm-dd-yyyy
DATE$ = a$
PRINT DATE$

Time is set in the same manner:

a$ = "10:42:00" ' hh:mm:ss
TIME$ = a$

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[Matthew Berg]

You can set the date with INT 21h, function 2Bh and set the time with INT 21h, function 2Dh. Use of these Interrupt functions avoids any Illegal Function Call errors, and also abrogates the need to deal with that annoying American date format.

[This message has been edited by Matthew Berg (edited February 04, 2000).]