!DATE

SwiftForth contains a word called !DATE to set the system date to a given
value. SwiftX does not. A poor implmentation is
: !DATE ( y d m -- ) ROT D/M/Y @TIME ROT !NOW ;

I say it is poor because fetching the time and then resetting the time to
that fetched time must lose a finite amount of time between the fetch and
the set. Though that time will never amount to a second, the resolution of
!NOW, it will drop a whole second if the time is fetched a microsecond
before the clock rolls over to a new second but stored a microsecond after.

Has anyone come up with a better implementation?
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Received on Fri May 31 2002 - 12:51:07 PDT