Subj : WHICH ???
To   : Klaus Meinhard
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Tue Dec 18 2001 09:34 am

Hello Klaus,

  Sunday December 16 2001 16:52, Klaus Meinhard wrote to me:

 >> which does nothing to indicate whether the date format is ISO or

 KM> a time-honoured form of determining the date base format in 4DOS
 KM> follows the idea of

 KM>   if %@date[01.02.03] eq 8432 echo Format is dd-mm-yy
 KM>   if %@date[01.02.03] eq 8402 echo Format is mm-dd-yy
 KM>   if %@date[01.02.03] eq 7704 echo Format is yy-mm-dd

Thank you, this works for me.....  <eG>

 KM> You can always adjust a 2- to a 4-digit year by

 KM>   set nyear=%@year[%1]
 KM>   set nyear=%@if[%nyear lt 80,20%nyear,19%nyear]

 KM>   set ndate=%@month[%1]-%day[%1]-%nyear

 KM> or something similar. Keep in mind that without special tools 4DOS,
 KM> like DOS, can handle only dates between 1980 and 2079 (?) or so.

Shortly after I made my inquiry, Steve reposted his WHICH.BTM to 
ddunfee@citynet.com and he had a solution that took care of the non-ISO date 
format dilemma - very nicely handled.

           Thanks again ... Gerald

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