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facebook-501042357 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:27:35 -0000

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for!

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girija — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:35:13 -0000

THANKS I GOT MY SOLUTION FROM THIS SITE, THANKS RYAN

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

David Thomas — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:02:06 -0000

one liner (YYYYMMDD): %date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%
output: 20090830

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foAudits — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:41:15 -0000

Thank you seamonkey420,

This is just what I was looking for.

~Bill

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

ASh — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:30:30 -0000

how can I create a file.txt containing the name of a file with the date of yesterday?

for example:

I have to create a file named:
script_ftp.txt -> within this file must be:

get TCFILE720/TCCFASIE.F(dated yesterday) S: \ files \ TCCFASIE.F(dated yesterday)

how can I create a file.txt containing the name of a file with the date of yesterday?

for example:

I have to create a file named:
script_ftp.txt -> within this file must be:

get TCFILE720/TCCFASIE.F20090825 S: \ files \ TCCFASIE.F20090825.dat

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

ahopici — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:16:00 -0000

The solution using VB script is awesome.
Eventually, extracting date is independent of regional setting on each particular computer.

Thank you, marcwentink.

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ashmo — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:26:51 -0000

I have read though all of these posts and still can't seem to figure out how to make a directory (folder) with the current date in the following format 09_08_13 (yy_mm_dd). Can anyone help me with this?

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

marcwentink — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:48:17 -0000

May this is usefull, especially since it is an example how to get all kinds of everything INDEPENDENT of the current language locale and date format settings using the Windows Scripting Host

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::
:: This uses Windows Scripting Host to set variables
:: to the current date/time/day/day_number
:: for Win9x/ME/NT/W2K/XP etc
:: Thanks go to Todd Vargo for his scripting
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
@echo off
set TmpFile="%temp%.\tmp.vbs"
echo> %TmpFile% n=Now
echo>>%TmpFile% With WScript
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set year=" + CStr(Year(n))
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set yr=" + Right(Year(n),2)
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set month="+ Right(100+Month(n),2)
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set day=" + Right(100+Day(n),2)
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set hour=" + Right(100+Hour(n),2)
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set min=" + Right(100+Minute(n),2)
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set sec=" + Right(100+Second(n),2)
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set dow=" + WeekDayName(Weekday(n),1)
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set dow2=" + WeekDayName(Weekday(n))
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set iso=" + CStr(1 + Int(n-2) mod 7)
echo>>%TmpFile% .Echo "set iso2=" + CStr(Weekday(n,2))
echo>>%TmpFile% End With
cscript //nologo "%temp%.\tmp.vbs" > "%temp%.\tmp.bat"
call "%temp%.\tmp.bat"
del "%temp%.\tmp.bat"
del %TmpFile%
set TmpFile=
set stamp=%year%-%month%-%day%_%hour%.%min%.%sec%

echo The year (YYyy) is "%year%"
echo The year (yy) is "%yr%"
echo The month is "%month%"
echo The day (%dow%) is "%day%"
echo The full weekday name is "%dow2%"
echo.
echo ISO 8601 Day-Of-Week number is "%iso%"
echo.
echo The hour is "%hour%"
echo The minute is "%min%"
echo The second is "%sec%"
echo.

echo The date and time stamp is "%stamp%"
echo.
echo time (hhmmss) (%hour%%min%%sec%)
echo.
echo date A (yyyymmdd) (%year%%month%%day%)
echo date B (mmddyyyy) (%month%%day%%year%)
echo date C (ddmmyyyy) (%day%%month%%year%)
echo.
echo date D [yymmdd] [%yr%%month%%day%]
echo date E [mmddyy] [%month%%day%%yr%]
echo date F [ddmmyy] [%day%%month%%yr%]
:: datetime.bat
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

marcwentink — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:29:49 -0000

Thanks Trent that is what I want: getting day month and year INDEPENDANT of the format used. I am going to study this.

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

Ben Personick — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:05:11 -0000

Erms, that IS pretty old school, try:

Set TDate=%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%

1 line = better

=D

PS. Also it's bad form to use a variable with the same name as a command, so, don't do that. =P

Peace,

-B

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dan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:06:36 -0000

Thanks guys... I really didn't have time to figure this out myself
I was going to recreate xset32 for win64 in c++ or PERL, but this is much easier.

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

Trent Nelson — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:03:21 -0000

Here's what I use. It queries the registry first to figure out what format the date is going to be returned in. It currently supports UK and US locales (as that's all I need to support at the moment). Trivial to extend it to support others.

@echo off
goto test

:get_date_yyyymmdd
setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
set _RV=
set _ERR=0
set _CMD=reg query "HKCU\Control Panel\International" /v sShortDate
for /f "usebackq skip=2 tokens=3,* delims= " %%i in (`%_CMD%`) do (
rem Amsterdam/Houston servers:
rem Short date format (%%i): M/d/yyyy
rem Sample %DATE%: Thu 05/29/2009
rem London servers:
rem Short date format (%%i): dd/MM/yyyy
rem Sample %DATE%: 29/05/2009
set D=!DATE!
echo i: %%i
echo D: !D!
if "%%i"=="M/d/yyyy" (
rem I'm assuming the day abbreviation will always be three chars
rem (so we account for four in total, including the space). So
rem far, I can attest that this is definitely the case on Wed &
rem Thu ;-)
set yyyy=!D:~-4!
set mm=!D:~-10,-8!
set dd=!D:~-7,-5!
) else if "%%i"=="dd/MM/yyyy" (
set yyyy=!D:~-4!
set mm=!D:~-7,-5!
set dd=!D:~-10,-8!
) else (
echo fatal: I don't understand this system's date format (%%i^)
set _ERR=1
)
)
set _RETVAL=!yyyy!!mm!!dd!
endlocal & set _YYYYMMDD=%_RETVAL% & set _ERROR=%_ERR%
exit /b %_ERROR%

:test
call :get_date_yyyymmdd
echo formatted date: %_YYYYMMDD%

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

Rarsa — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:04:11 -0000

I had been using a method similar to yours but recently I found one that is even simpler:

The %DATE% AND %TIME% variables contain the formated date and time so you an just extract the substrings using regular variable syntax

set _DATETIME=%DATE:~10,4%%DATE:~4,2%%DATE:~7,2%%TIME:~0,2%%TIME:~3,2%%TIME:~6,2%

In my case

%DATE% contains "Tue 05/26/2009"
so %DATE:~10,4% means to extract a substring 4 characters long starting from character 10

If you weren't aware of that way of handling substrings for any variables, now you know.

If you have a different default date format than mine you will have to adapt the parameters

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

FP — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:28:00 -0000

Or you can use %date% and parse it later in your script.

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

James Lubuag — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:12:14 -0000

how can i combine the date and time to create a file name. please advise

echo %date:~10,4%%date:~7,2%%date:~4,2%

ren d:\temp\log.pdf Survey%date:~10,4%%date:~7,2%%date:~4,2%.pdf

pause

for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=:" %%d in ("%time%") do rename "hope.pdf" %%d-%%e.pdf
pause

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

Fuad — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:22:11 -0000

Okey
that helps

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

Chris Felpel — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:36:43 -0000

Many thanks. I started to write my own then quickly remembered writing bat files requires a fine mix of science and art with a dash of experence.

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

Some User — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:27:07 -0000

For programmers in the USA, use THIS script instead, otherwise it won't work with the standard Windows US MM/DD/YYYY format.

@Echo Off
Set YYYY-MM-DD=%DATE:~6,4%-%DATE:~0,2%-%DATE:~3,2%

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mike — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:15:11 -0000

genius!, simple, elegant! thanks!

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leif — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:26:51 -0000

not the best at this yet dont even realy know what half what i posted mean but i just got it working with the Filename_"%PDATE%". if you dont want a gap inbetween file and date do Filename"%PDATE%". hope it helps.

FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET mm=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET dd=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=3* DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET yyyy=%%B

set /A dd=%dd%

set Pdate=%yyyy%_%mm%_%dd%
echo %Pdate%

mkdir C:\MYFILE_"%PDATE%"\

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

rvsdi — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:45:37 -0000

how to save file with filename+current date
ex : myfile20090210

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

Marcus — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:27:52 -0000

Perfect, exactly what i wanted, thanks for saving me 2 hours !

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

Hersch — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:37:24 -0000

Ryan, I love it, it is great one line no trickery with files etc. I expanded it further my requirements.

echo Get the current date and time in YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS format
SET isodt=%date:~10,4%-%date:~7,2%-%date:~4,2%-%time:~0,2%-%time:~3,2%-%time:~6,2%
echo %isodt%

Thanks a million

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Rakesh Bhangre — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:31:41 -0000

like my file in E drive - 06022009.DMP so how can copy this file in CD Drive using Batch file. my batch file is :-
@echo off
cls
echo Copying started at %date% %time%
xcopy "E:\%date%.DMP" "C:\Documents and Settings\Hp1\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning\BACKUP\*.*" /s /e /h /c /d /i /y
xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\Hp1\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning\BACKUP\*.*" "G:\BACKUP\*.*"
PAUSE
explorer g:

Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format. | Computer programming | Tech-Recipes

Ryan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:06:33 -0000

why not just do this:

set mydate=%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~10,4%