Done For development or test purposes SET date and time INTERNAL variables

[Rick Reinckens]

Is there a way to "game" date and time internal variables for development and test purposes?

What I'm asking about is for development/test purposes being able to tell TCC "return this date/time" in the internal variables. So, for instance, on 8/17 tell it to have %_date return 9/1/2018 or 1/2/2019 so I can test "month changeover" or "year changeover" code without changing the PC's system date and without writing loads of functions to substitute for the TCC internal variables. So _day, _imonth, etc., all would use the "test" date and time rather than the actual system date/time.

 

[rconn]

Sure, just define it as an environment variable:

set _date=0/1/2018

TCC will try to match environment variables before internal variables.

 

[Rick Reinckens]

Thanks!

 

[Rick Reinckens]

I wrote a sample script and put it in "Tips and Tricks" under topic "Replace internal date vars with user-set values"