DATE + Displaying the Current Date
     Displays the current system date; allows you to enter a new 
date.
    VERSION
          PC-DOS 2.0+ (revised from 1.1; revised again in PC-DOS 
          3.3)
	  MS-DOS equivalent: DATE (2.0+)
    TYPE
          Internal
    SYNTAX
	  DATE [mm-dd-yy]
or 
	  DATE [mmyy]
or 
	  DATE [yy-mm-dd]
     DATE allows you to reset the system date to the current date 
or obtain the current date from the system clock.
    EXAMPLES
	  DATE 1-1-88
sets the system date to Fri 1-01-1988. You may separate day, 
month, and year with hyphens (-), slashes (/), or periods (.). 
You do not need to type leading zeros.
	  DATE
returns the current date and prompts you for a new one.
    MESSAGE
	  Invalid date
The date you entered used an invalid format.  Check your entry 
and try again.
    UNDO
     To reset the date, type
	  DATE
and enter the current date in one of the allowable formats.
    NOTE
     In version 3.3 of PC-DOS, if your computer has an internal 
clock, the DATE command also resets it. (This is the inverse of 
previous versions.) You can include the DATE command in an 
AUTOEXEC.BAT file so that you are not prompted for the date when 
you boot DOS. If there is no clock that DOS can read, the prompts 
still come up. To change the date format, create a CONFIG.SYS 
file that includes the COUNTRY command.
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    SEE ALSO
          Batch Files
          CONFIG.SYS File 
          TIME Command