drawer named from date

[kolla]

Yeah, dream on

You wish to format the output of C:Date, but VERY SADLY, C:Date does not support that, so you have to jump through hoops around the problem.

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Echo to T:timestamp
Makedir `List DATES T:timestamp LFORMAT %D`
Delete T:timestamp QUIET

This creates a temporary file, which you then can list with LDORMAT %D to get the date from, but you need "DATES" parameter or it will always say "Today", and then make a directory with this name - also SADLY it will be 29-Jan-20 and not 29-01-2020, and there is little you can do about that, and also this output depends on locale, so in case of the month of May, a system with English locale will for example say "29-May-20", while with Norwegian locales will say "29-Mai-20" and Swedish "29-Maj-20" etc.

If you think that this is all crazy and should be corrected, you can join my whining choir...

[kolla]

Huh, why resort to third party software - even though AmigaDOS date is tedious in all kinds of ways, ARexx DATE works fine, for example

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Makedir `rx “SAY DATE(S)”` may be good enough, it makes a 20200201 directory today.

[kolla]

A thirdparty tool is as good as a dependency on AREXX, but i like any different solution of course.

The problem is that over time, your path fills up with a range of third party tools that you no longer have any idea where they came from or what they really do   ARexx you can count on being there, and it's in general a better choice for scripting.

Btw - if anyone feel like reporting an OS bug... well, ARexx bug - DATE(CENTURY) is supposed to return the number of days in this century, but it really looks more like the number of days since 01-01-1900, and not since 01-01-2000. So it's really a "Y2K" bug.