Date

Family: Date · 2 forms

What it does

Date takes no arguments, and answers an integer. That is the first of 2 forms.

Syntax

Date() → integer

Date(year integer, month integer, day integer, hour integer, minute integer, second integer) → integer

Parameters

Name	Type	In forms
year	integer	2
month	integer	2
day	integer	2
hour	integer	2
minute	integer	2
second	integer	2

Every form returns

integer

Example · generated

Form 1, the short one

DO  Print(Date())  Sync()LOOP

Form 2, with every argument

DO  Print(Date(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1))  Sync()LOOP

Date is called and its answer is printed every frame. The DO … LOOP is not decoration: a classic BASIC program ends the moment it runs out of lines, and Sync() is what draws the frame.

Related commands

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13 commands in Date