How to print the current time in a Batch-File

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I need to print time in a batch file but command prompt tells me that the syntax is incorrect  Here is the code i have so far    echo  time  ping -n 1 -w 1 127 0 0 1 1 gt nul  echo  time  pause cls   I don t know why it isn t working  Please help Me

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This works with Windows 10  8 x  7  and possibly further back    echo Started   date   time         echo Completed   date   time

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You can use the command time  t for the time and date  t for the date  here is an example    echo off time  t  gt  tmp  time tmp date  t  gt  tmp  date tmp set ttime  lt  tmp  time tmp set tdate  lt  tmp  date tmp del  f  q  tmp  time tmp del  f  q  tmp  date tmp echo Time   ttime  echo Date   tdate  pause  gt nul   You can also use the built in variables  time  and  date   here is another example    echo off echo Time   time  0 5  echo Date   date  pause  gt nul

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Not sure if your question was answered   This will write the time  amp  date every 20 seconds in the file ping ip txt  The second to last line just says run the same batch file again  and agan  and again           etc   Does not seem to create multiple instances  so that s a good thing    echo  time   date   gt  gt ping ip txt ping -n 20 -w 3 127 0 0 1  gt  gt ping ip txt This Batch FileName bat cls

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If you use the command  time  T   that will print the time   without the  T  it will try to set the time   date  T   is similar for the date   If cmd s Command Extensions are enabled  they are enabled by default  but in this question they appear to be disabled   then the environment variables  DATE  and  TIME  will expand to the current date and time each time they are expanded  The format used is the same as the DATE and TIME commands   To see the other dynamic environment variables that exist when Command Extensions are enabled  run set

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we can easily print the current time and date using echo and system variables as below   echo  DATE   TIME    output example  13-Sep-19 15 53 05 62

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set time1  time  call timeout 10 set time2  time  echo  time1 echo  time2 echo  pause

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