Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY format.

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Created: Jul 24, 2005


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This is a recipe I discovered while working on a few old skool dos batch files. This is a quick .bat file to create a folder based on the current date however, this sets it up in the MMDDYYYY format. Useful for those .bat scripters who need to use the current date variable in such a format.

Just copy and paste the text in quotes to a text file. Then rename file test.bat and run from command line to see (echo is on by default).

This can be used in a very powerful way, the FOR command can be reused and changed to query to see if a file exists and then if so create the folder, etc.

for now, lets start basic...

Quote:

echo on
@REM Seamonkey's quick date batch (MMDDYYYY format)
@REM Setups %date variable
@REM First parses month, day, and year into mm , dd, yyyy formats and then combines to be MMDDYYYY

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


this does nothing but setup the %date variable to be todays date in MMDDYYYY format so it can be called later in the script, etc..

peace
seamonkey420

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Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY fo by wattpuppy
Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYY by wanderer
Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYY by wanderer
Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY fo by wattpuppy
Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY fo by wanderer
Subtract dates by Anonymous
Re: Windows Batch File (.bat) to get current date in MMDDYYYY fo by Anonymous
subtract date from current date by Anonymous
Re: Subtract dates by davak
Script a date then count up days by sfortine
mod this for different date output by dklock
time and date in batch file by SparkByte



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