Hi, > On Jan 30, 2024, at 7:00 AM, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm currently facing some users which seem to have a bad BIOS battery and > therefor aren't using the current date. > Those users aren't even noticing that wrong date on their printed invoices of > that day... > > Is there a simple way to check from Autoexec/FDAUTO for the year of the date, > and if lower than 2024 prompt for a correct setting? > > Thanks!
Sure. You can have date output the current date and save it in an environment variable. The test the return string against the known BAD value. Something like… set /e TODAY=date /d if “%TODAY%” == “Current date is TUE 01-30-2024” goto BadDate goto GoodDate :BadDate date time :GoodDate set TODAY= Or, if you want to get a little more fancy… date /d | vstr /b /f “ “ 5- | set /p TODAY= if “%TODAY%” == “01-30-2024” goto BadDate (see above) Or, even just check the year… date /d | vstr /b /f - 3 | set /p YEAR= if “%YEAR%” == “2024” goto BadDate (see above) Or, even better… date /d | vstr /b /f - 3 | set /p YEAR= if NOT “%YEAR%” == “1980” goto GoodDate date time :GoodDate set YEAR= Jerome > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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