Re: Apple Pascal 1.3 - how does the Filer Date command work?

[david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)]

david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson) writes:
>I have a Smartwatch in my //e and would like to add a startup program to my
>Pascal system to set the date. Can anyone explain exactly what the Date command
>does (in detail). I assume it writes to the system disk but it should, I think,
>keep it in memory somewhere (but where?)

Well, I wrote a little program to search memory and it managed to find where
Pascal v1.3 (128k) keeps the current date. It is in $B85A..$B85B in the
following format:

	|  B85B	  |	B85A |
	| Year | Day | Month |
	  7bits  5bits 4bits

This is the format the following Pascal definition gives:

	daterec = packed record of
		month : 0..12;
		day   : 0..31;
		year  : 0..100	(* 100 is for temp files *)
	end;
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