| date | procedure |
| Syntax | date (var d : string)
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| Description | The date statement is used to determine the current date. Variable d is assigned a string in the format "dd mmm yy", where mmm is the first 3 characters of the month, e.g., "Apr". For example, if the date is Christmas 2002, d will be set to "25 Dec 02".
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| Example | This program greets you and tells you the date.
var today : string
date (today)
put "Greetings!! The date today is ", today
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| Details | Be warned that Turing gets the date from the operating system. If the date is is not correctly set in the operating system, then the date procedure will give incorrect results.
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| See also | delay, clock, sysclock, wallclock and time statements. See also predefined unit Time.
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