Command: time
Displays or sets current time.
Syntax:
1. TIME
2. TIME [ /T ]
3. TIME [ /T ] time
Options:
All options must precede any arguments.
none You are prompted for a new time for your system.
hh:mm
hh:mm:ss
hh:mm:ss.ss
The time to set for your system.
'hh' is the hour on a 12 or 24 hour clock.
'mm' is the minute.
'ss.ss' is seconds and hundredths of seconds.
/T Prevents from prompting the user, only he time is displayed.
/T time The time is tried to be changed, but the loop is not entered
on failure.
/? Shows the help.
Comments:
Variant 1 displays the current time, then enters a loop prompting
the user to enter a new time. The loops terminates when a valid
time had entered or the user just pressed the ENTER key to acceppt
the current setting without changing it.
Variant 2 displays the current system time only.
Variant 3 does not display the current time, but tries to change the
current time to the specified time, on failure the loop as explained
above is entered.
The individual portions of a time may be sperated by at least:
dots ., colons : and forward slashes /. Other nationally used
characters may be supported, too. If a certain number of portions
are specified:
error,
hour:minute; seconds and hundreds default to zero,
hour:minute:seconds; hundreds defaults to zero,
hour:minute:seconds.hundreds;
more than 4 portions result in an error.
Separated by no, one or more whitespaces the am/pm modifiers may
follow optionally. If present they alter the given time as follows:
AM: if hour is equal to 12, it becomes 0 (midnight).
PM: if hour is greater than 12, it is incremented by 12.
TIME is a command internal to command.com and needs no other file
in order to work.
Examples:
Example 1:
TIME
Asks you for a new time
Example 2:
TIME /T
Just displays the current time.
Example 3:
TIME 18:2
Sets the current system time to 6:02 PM.
See also:
command.com/freecom
date
Copyright © 2004 Robert Platt, updated 2011 and 2022 by W. Spiegl.
This file is derived from the FreeDOS Spec Command HOWTO.
See the file H2Cpying for copying conditions.