[Coco] TIME STAMP

Aaron manney at gmail.com
Fri Sep 13 17:27:45 EDT 2019


Hi Wayne,

That's the one.  I only quickly looked through the archive, but didn't see
it.  🙂

Thanks.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 2:42 PM Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:

> You mean the Basic09 Tour Guide by Dale Puckett? It should be in the
> archive I think.
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 11:04 AM Aaron <manney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Charlie,
> >
> > Have a look at the below links for Tandy's Basic09 manuals.  I'm not sure
> > what the difference is between them, though.  I'm looking for another
> book
> > that used to help me with Basic09, but haven't found it yet.
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Programming/BASIC09%20Reference%20(Tandy).pdf
> >
> >
> http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Programming/OS-9%20Level%202%20Basic09%20Reference%20(Tandy).pdf
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:11 AM L. Curtis Boyle <
> curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > BASIC09 has some syntax compatibility with Pascal (as it is kind of a
> > > hybrid), so it accepts both := and = for assigning a variable. Like
> you,
> > > since I am a lazy typer, I prefer just ‘=‘, but others find it easier
> to
> > > read / follow code if they use ‘=‘ for comparing only, and := for
> > assigning.
> > >
> > > L. Curtis Boyle
> > > curtisboyle at sasktel.net
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Sep 13, 2019, at 9:36 AM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Works well but two questions.
> > > > 1. Whats this := vs just =
> > > > 2. Is the date y2k compatable ie. will leap year dates
> > > > be correct for the 21at Century?
> > > >
> > > > On 2019-09-13 09:05, Wayne Campbell wrote:
> > > >> DATE$
> > > >> DIM myDate:STRING
> > > >> myDate:=DATE$
> > > >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 5:49 AM <coco at jechar.ca> wrote:
> > > >>>  Is there a syscall or function from Basic09 to get
> > > >>>  a TIMESTAMP into a String variable or BYTE array ?
> > > >>>  Charlie.
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