CONFIG DATE

Action

Configure the Format of the Date String for Input to and Output from BASCOM – Date functions

 

 

Syntax

CONFIG DATE = DMY , Separator = char

 

 

Remarks

DMY	The Day, month and year order. Use DMY, MDY or YMD.
Char	The character used to separate the day, month and year.   Old syntax :  / , - or . (dot).   Preferred new syntax : MINUS, SLASH or DOT.   Example: Config Date = DMY, SEPARATOR=MINUS

 

The following table shows the common formats of date and the associated statements.

 

Country	Format	Statement
American	mm/dd/yy	Config Date = MDY, Separator = SLASH
ANSI	yy.mm.dd	Config Date = YMD, Separator = DOT
Britisch/French	dd/mm/yy	Config Date = DMY, Separator = SLASH
German	dd.mm.yy	Config Date = DMY, Separator = DOT
Italian	dd-mm-yy	Config Date = DMY, Separator = MINUS
Japan/Taiwan	yy/mm/dd	Config Date = YMD, Separator = SLASH
USA	mm-dd-yy	Config Date = MDY, Separator = MINUS

 

 

When you live in Holland you would use :

CONFIG DATE = DMY, separator = MINUS

This would print 24-04-02 for 24 November 2002.

 

When you line in the US, you would use :

CONFIG DATE = MDY , separator = SLASH

This would print 04/24/02 for 24 November 2002.

 

 

See also

CONFIG CLOCK , DATE TIME functions , DayOfWeek , DayOfYear , SecOfDay , SecElapsed , SysDay , SysSec , SysSecElapsed , Time , Date

 

 

Example

'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'name : megaclock.bas
'copyright : (c) 1995-2005, MCS Electronics
'purpose : shows the new TIME$ and DATE$ reserved variables
'micro : Mega103
'suited for demo : yes
'commercial addon needed : no
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
$regfile = "m103def.dat" ' specify the used micro
$crystal = 4000000 ' used crystal frequency
$baud = 19200 ' use baud rate
$hwstack = 32 ' default use 32 for the hardware stack
$swstack = 10 ' default use 10 for the SW stack
$framesize = 40 ' default use 40 for the frame space
 
'With the 8535 and timer2 or the Mega103 and TIMER0 you can
'easily implement a clock by attaching a 32768 Hz xtal to the timer
'And of course some BASCOM code
 
'This example is written for the STK300 with M103
Enable Interrupts
 
'[configure LCD]
$lcd = &HC000 'address for E and RS
$lcdrs = &H8000 'address for only E
Config Lcd = 20 * 4 'nice display from bg micro
Config Lcdbus = 4 'we run it in bus mode and I hooked up only db4-db7
Config Lcdmode = Bus 'tell about the bus mode
 
'[now init the clock]
Config Date = Mdy , Separator = SLASH ' ANSI-Format
 
Config Clock = Soft 'this is how simple it is
'The above statement will bind in an ISR so you can not use the TIMER anymore!
'For the M103 in this case it means that TIMER0 can not be used by the user anymore
 
'assign the date to the reserved date$
'The format is MM/DD/YY
Date$ = "11/11/00"
 
'assign the time, format in hh:mm:ss military format(24 hours)
'You may not use 1:2:3 !! adding support for this would mean overhead
'But of course you can alter the library routines used
 
Time$ = "02:20:00"
 
'---------------------------------------------------
 
'clear the LCD display
Cls
 
Do
Home 'cursor home
Lcd Date$ ; " " ; Time$ 'show the date and time
Loop
 
'The clock routine does use the following internal variables:
'_day , _month, _year , _sec, _hour, _min
'These are all bytes. You can assign or use them directly
_day = 1
'For the _year variable only the year is stored, not the century
End

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