Filename timestamp in Windows CMD batch script getting truncated

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I have a batch script that outputs a file  and I m trying to ensure that each time the script is executed  no existing files are overwritten  so I m trying to put a timestamp on it   Currently I have this   set  stamp  DATE   -   TIME   -    But if the time is 1-9 nbsp AM  it gives something like   13-06-2012  instead of a full 13-06-2012 12-39-37 28   How can I fix this   I m using Windows nbsp 7  and the output of echo  date   time  in a command line window is  my clock format for  short date  is set to display 3-letter months    03-Sep-12 9 06 21 54   Basically I want a solution that solves the issue regardless of what the clock  format is set to     Edit  Since no one likes to read past the title  I will explicitly state this question is about a truncation issue  And I found a solution   I ve been using the following timestamp for a good while now  works well   set timestamp  DATE   -   TIME   -  set timestamp  timestamp       It produced a timestamp like  18-03-2013 13-37-43 26  by replacing   and   in  TIME  and  DATE   then stripping white space  The whitespace was the problem in my original question  really

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See Stack nbsp Overflow question How to get current datetime on Windows command line  in a suitable format for using in a filename    Create a file  date bat    echo off For  f  tokens 2-4 delims       a in   date  t   do  set mydate   c-  a-  b  For  f  tokens 1-3 delims         a in   time  t   do  set mytime   a-  b-  c  set mytime  mytime      echo  mydate   mytime    Run date bat   C   gt date bat 2012-06-14 12-47-PM   UPDATE   You can also do it with one line like this   for  f  tokens 2-8 delims         a in    date   time    do set DateNtime   c-  a-  b   d-  e-  f   g

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The first four lines of this code will give you reliable YY DD MM YYYY HH Min Sec variables in XP Pro and higher  using WMIC   echo off for  f  quot tokens 2 delims   quot    a in   wmic OS Get localdatetime  value   do set  quot dt   a quot  set  quot YY  dt  2 2  quot   amp  set  quot YYYY  dt  0 4  quot   amp  set  quot MM  dt  4 2  quot   amp  set  quot DD  dt  6 2  quot  set  quot HH  dt  8 2  quot   amp  set  quot Min  dt  10 2  quot   amp  set  quot Sec  dt  12 2  quot   set  quot datestamp  YYYY  MM  DD  quot   amp  set  quot timestamp  HH  Min  Sec  quot  set  quot fullstamp  YYYY - MM - DD   HH - Min - Sec  quot  echo datestamp   quot  datestamp  quot  echo timestamp   quot  timestamp  quot  echo fullstamp   quot  fullstamp  quot  pause  Output example  datestamp   quot 20200828 quot  timestamp   quot 085513 quot  fullstamp   quot 2020-08-28 08-55-13 quot  Press any key to continue

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In the past  I ve used a  cmd script I found on the Internet  I hate the way localization normally messes with dates  Anytime you have dates in filenames  or anywhere else  if I may be so bold  I figure you want them in ISO 8601 format   2015-02-19T14 54 51Z  or something else that has Y M D H M in that order  such as  2015-02-19 14 54  because it fixes the MDY   DMY ambiguity and because it s sortable as text   I don t know where I got that  cmd script  but it may have been http   ss64 com nt syntax-getdate html  which works beautifully on my YYYY-MM-DD Windows 8 1 and on a M D YYYY vanilla install of Windows 7  Both give the same format   2015-02-09 04 43

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Here s a batch script I made to return a timestamp  An optional first argument may be provided to be used as a field delimiter  For example   c  sys tmp timestamp bat 20160404 144741 c  sys tmp timestamp bat - 2016-04-04 14-45-25 c  sys tmp timestamp bat   2016 04 04 14 45 29   echo off SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION    put your desired field delimiter here     for example  setting DELIMITER to a hyphen will separate fields like so     yyyy-MM-dd hh-mm-ss       setting DELIMITER to nothing will output like so     yyyyMMdd hhmmss    SET DELIMITER  1  SET DATESTRING  date  -4 4  DELIMITER  date  -7 2  DELIMITER  date  -10 2  SET TIMESTRING  TIME    TRIM OFF the LAST 3 characters of TIMESTRING  which is the decimal point and hundredths of a second set TIMESTRING  TIMESTRING  0 -3      Replace colons from TIMESTRING with DELIMITER SET TIMESTRING  TIMESTRING    DELIMITER       if there is a preceeding space substitute with a zero echo  DATESTRING   TIMESTRING   0

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BATCH CMD FILE like DateAndTime cmd  not in CMD-Console   Code   SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion  set d  date  8 2 - date  3 2 - date  0 2    amp   set t  time        amp   set t  t   0    amp   set STAMP  d    t     Create output   echo  stamp    Output   2020-02-25  08 43 38 90   Or also possible in for lines in CMD-Console and BATCH CMD File  set d  date  6 4 - date  3 2 - date  0 2  set t  time      set t  t   0  set stamp  d    t     Create output  and  Output  same as above

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Windows batch log file name in 2018-02-08 14 32 06 34 log format   setlocal set d  DATE  -4 - DATE  4 2 - DATE  7 2  set t  time       set t  t     set logfile   d   t  log   ping localhost -n 11 gt  1  logfile  endlocal

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for  f  tokens 2-8 delims         a in    date   time   0    do set DateNtime   c-  a-  b   d-  e-  f   g echo  DateNtime    Or  from the command line   for  f  tokens 2-8 delims        a in    date   time   0    do echo  c- a- b  d- e- f  g      EDIT  As per bryce s non-standard time date specs   03-Sep-12 9 06 21 54    echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for  f  tokens 1-7 delims    -     a in    date   time    do     if    b    Jan  set MM 01   if    b    Feb  set MM 02   if    b    Mar  set MM 03   if    b    Apr  set MM 04   if    b    May  set MM 05   if    b    Jun  set MM 06   if    b    Jul  set MM 07   if    b    Aug  set MM 08   if    b    Sep  set MM 09   if    b    Oct  set MM 10   if    b    Nov  set MM 11   if    b    Dec  set MM 12   set HH 0  d   set HH  HH  -2    echo 20  c- MM -  a  HH -  e-  f   g   endlocal

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It wants the full time in DD-MM-YYYY HH-MM-SS TT where TT is the ticks  The exception says it all

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Thanks to an answer to Stack nbsp Overflow quesion Creating a file name as a timestamp in a batch job  I found that it was a space terminating the filename

[windows] Filename timestamp in Windows CMD batch script getting truncated

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