Jim Lawrence (AccessD)
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Mar 17 08:28:01 CST 2003
Afraid so Arthur...The slashes still confuse me to this day...Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 5:57 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K: This should be easy Anyone in this list besides me old enough to remember CP/M? Those were the days! Once I did a big app on a computer system called Molecular, that had a multi-user version of CP/M and 10MB hard disks! Bitchin system. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: March 17, 2003 8:15 AM To: Stuart McLachlan Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2K: This should be easy Hi Stuart Oh, I'm old enough to know about Date and Time and DOS - and drivers for add-on battery clocks for XT machines. What I didn't know was that these (Date and Time) were equivalent to those of VBA; I've always regarded these as functions to only read the settings of DOS (or WinNT+). /gustav >> > Also, another little known fact about the Date, Time >> > and Now functions. They work both ways. If you use this line of >> > code: >> >> > Date=Date()+1 >> >> > You've just set your systems date to tomorrow! <grin> >> >> That is scary! I didn't know that. >> Why do you know such weird things? > Because we've been using various BASICs for many years (in my case > over 20) and once upon a time in DOS , we regularly used DATE and > TIME to adjust the system clock. _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com