'How to get date in BAT file
I need to get today date in Window *.bat
file. After it I would like to get day, month and year. How can I do this?
I can't use PowerShell
Solution 1:[1]
You get and format like this
for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i in ("%date%") do (
set dow=%%i
set month=%%j
set day=%%k
set year=%%l
)
set datestr=%month%_%day%_%year%
echo datestr is %datestr%
Note: Above only works on US locale. It assumes the output of echo %date%
looks like this: Thu 02/13/21
. If you have different Windows locale settings, you will need to modify the script based on your configuration.
Solution 2:[2]
This will give you DD MM YYYY YY HH Min Sec
variables and works on any Windows machine from XP Pro and later.
@echo off
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime /value') do set "dt=%%a"
set "YY=%dt:~2,2%" & set "YYYY=%dt:~0,4%" & set "MM=%dt:~4,2%" & set "DD=%dt:~6,2%"
set "HH=%dt:~8,2%" & set "Min=%dt:~10,2%" & set "Sec=%dt:~12,2%"
set "datestamp=%YYYY%%MM%%DD%" & set "timestamp=%HH%%Min%%Sec%"
set "fullstamp=%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%_%HH%-%Min%-%Sec%"
echo datestamp: "%datestamp%"
echo timestamp: "%timestamp%"
echo fullstamp: "%fullstamp%"
pause
Solution 3:[3]
%date%
will give you the date.
%time%
will give you the time.
The date
and time /t
commands may give you more detail.
Solution 4:[4]
Locale-independent one liner to get any date format you like. I use it to generate archive names. Back quote (`) option is needed because PowerShell command line is using single quotes (').
:: Get date in 'yyyyMMdd_HHmm' format to use with file name.
FOR /f "usebackq" %%i IN (`PowerShell ^(Get-Date^).ToString^('yyyyMMdd_HHmm'^)`) DO SET DTime=%%i
:: Get yesterday date in 'yyyy-MM-dd' format.
FOR /f "usebackq" %%i IN (`PowerShell ^(Get-Date^).AddDays^(-1^).ToString^('yyyy-MM-dd'^)`) DO SET DTime=%%i
:: Show file name with the date.
echo Archive.%DTime%.zip
Solution 5:[5]
set datestr=%date%
set result=%datestr:/=-%
@echo %result%
pause
Sources
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Solution | Source |
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Solution 1 | Kip |
Solution 2 | phuclv |
Solution 3 | canhazbits |
Solution 4 | |
Solution 5 | jfindley |