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Comment on Date and Time in Windows Batch Files by Jimbob

Jimbob — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:54:56 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for the quick results and solution

mdlueck — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:23:07 +0000

Bravo! Finally a Rx which works in NT Batch, and consists of only 1 LOC!

dorothy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:38:19 +0000

Excellent. Best explanation of date and time syntax.

Mou — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:08:19 +0000

How to get the date of yesterday by using similar code?

Matt — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:56:01 +0000

Thanks a million, this is exactly what I needed!

Petr 'PePa' Pavel — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:46:22 +0000

I can’t thank you enough.

One thing puzzles me. I’m running Czech Windows XP SP3 and the positions numbering seems to be shifted by one in my case:

Your code:
C:\>echo %date%
ne 26.06.2011

Your code:
C:\>echo %date:~10,4%%date:~7,2%%date:~4,2%-name.log
0116.6.-name.log

My corrected code:
C:\>echo %date:~9,4%%date:~6,2%%date:~3,2%-name.log
20110626-name.log

Darlene — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:02:56 +0000

Thanks for explaining the syntax. Many of the other websites just gave the syntax and I couldn’t figure out how to change it to meet my needs.

Cheryl — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:29:46 +0000

Thanks so much, this was a huge help!

George — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:00:28 +0000

Thanks a lot, that’s the easiest way that I’ve found to implement this

Thanks, thanks, thanks!

Fernando — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:32:16 +0000

Thanks a lot. Searched a lot of sites trying a way to do this, your explanation was by far the easiest to implement.