Avery Dennison 6037 Rev. AA 3/04 Programmer Manual - Manual (Page 62)

4-20 ROM-DOS Internal Commands
Alternatively, you may skip the display and prompting by entering the
current date on the command line. To enter June 10, 1999 (assuming US
country support), enter the DATE command as follows:
DATE 6-10-1999
Valid entries for months, days, and years are
mm = 1-12 dd = 1-31 yyyy = 1980-2099
ROM-DOS calculates the day of the week; do not include it in your entry.