GetDate

Get the current date

Declaration

Source position: dosh.inc line 95

procedure GetDate(

var year: Word;

var month: Word;

var mday: Word;

var wday: Word

);

Description

GetDate returns the system's date. Year is a number in the range 1980..2099.mday is the day of the month, wday is the day of the week, starting with Sunday as day 0.

Errors

None.

Example

Program Example2;
uses Dos;

{ Program to demonstrate the GetDate function. }

const
  DayStr:array[0..6] of string[3]=('Sun','Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat');
  MonthStr:array[1..12] of string[3]=('Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun',
                                      'Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec');
var
  Year,Month,Day,WDay : word;
begin
  GetDate(Year,Month,Day,WDay);
  WriteLn('Current date');
  WriteLn(DayStr[WDay],', ',Day,' ',MonthStr[Month],' ',Year,'.');
end.

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