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The instrucción date$ = GetDate([type]) has a strange way of work, in Windows the correct when you pass the date$=GetDate() in Windows you get day/month number string/year full with four number example 02/03/2020 but this instruction under Amiga 68k and MorphOS you get 02/mar/20 the month in letters and the year only two numbers, even if you added the parameter #DATELOCALNATIVE under Windows works fine but under Amiga works like #DATELOCAL.

Not a bug. #DATELOCALNATIVE is the default and delivers the date in the operating system's default format. If you want it locale-independent, use #DATELOCAL instead.

No, in Amiga systems both parameters hace the same results in Windows you have the two results as you say in the guide and manual.
I want in Amiga get the date with 03/03/2020 like Windows not only 03-Mar-2020 with both parameters.

Juan Carlos wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 10:55 am No, in Amiga systems both parameters hace the same results in Windows you have the two results as you say in the guide and manual.
I want in Amiga get the date with 03/03/2020 like Windows not only 03-Mar-2020 with both parameters.

There is no way to get 03/03/2020 on Amiga, it is locale-dependent. On Windows it will be different too, e.g. on a German system you get 03.03.2020 for #DATELOCALNATIVE. The only way to have a locale-independent implementation is to use #DATELOCAL. If you don't like the format returned by #DATELOCAL, use ParseDate() to convert it to a different format. It's really easy to convert #DATELOCAL's result to dd/mm/yyyy...

Thanks for the answer is that manual isn't clear this issue.

For example like GetDate() doesn't work correcto os impossible to use the CompareDates() because It gives error to comparativo.

Well, of course CompareDates() can only be used with dates in the format as returned by #DATELOCAL.