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.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBproc datesettings\fR may be used to
control details of date handling.

.SH ATTRIBUTES
.LP
\fBformat\fR  \fIformat\fR
.IP
Set the current date notation to \fIformat\fR.  
Available formats are described in 
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.LP
\fBomitweekends\fR  \fComit\fR | \fCadjust\fR | \fCyes\fR | \fCno\fR
.IP
Allows date plotting as if
Saturdays and Sundays did not exist.
Mondays will follow Fridays directly.  
Useful in certain business and work-related plots.
.br
If \fComit\fR, any Saturday or Sunday dates encountered will be considered invalid and omitted;
however they will not be reported unless the -showbad command line option is used.
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If \fCadjust\fR or \fCyes\fR, any Saturday or Sunday dates encountered will be silently adjusted 
to the nearest weekday.

.LP
\fBpivotyear\fR  \fIyy\fR
.IP
Set the pivot year for deciding which century a two-digit year
value is in.  See
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for further discussion of pivot year.

.LP
\fBlazydates\fR  \fCmonth\fR|\fCday\fR|\fCboth\fR
.IP
Allow handling of dates where the day component
or the month component is not known.
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for further discussion of lazy dates.

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