How do I get the Date Time VBS

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How do I get the current date and time using VBS  for Windows  I m not looking for VBScript for ASP ASPX or webpages

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Show time in form 24 hours  Right  0   amp  hour now  2   amp       amp  Right  0   amp  minute now  2      01 35 Right  0   amp  hour now  2                                         01 Right  0   amp  minute now  2                                       35

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Here s various date and time information you can pull in vbscript running under Windows Script Host  WSH    Now     2 29 2016 1 02 03 PM Date    2 29 2016 Time    1 02 03 PM Timer   78826 31       seconds since midnight  FormatDateTime Now                   2 29 2016 1 02 03 PM FormatDateTime Now  vbGeneralDate    2 29 2016 1 02 03 PM FormatDateTime Now  vbLongDate       Monday  February 29  2016 FormatDateTime Now  vbShortDate      2 29 2016 FormatDateTime Now  vbLongTime       1 02 03 PM FormatDateTime Now  vbShortTime      13 02  Year Now      2016 Month Now     2 Day Now       29 Hour Now      13 Minute Now    2 Second Now    3  Year Date      2016 Month Date     2 Day Date       29  Hour Time      13 Minute Time    2 Second Time    3  Function LPad  str  pad  length      LPad   String length - Len str   pad   amp  str End Function  LPad Month Date    0   2       02 LPad Day Date    0   2         29 LPad Hour Time    0   2        13 LPad Minute Time    0   2      02 LPad Second Time    0   2      03  Weekday Now                        2 WeekdayName Weekday Now   True     Mon WeekdayName Weekday Now   False    Monday WeekdayName Weekday Now            Monday  MonthName Month Now   True     Feb MonthName Month Now   False    February MonthName Month Now            February  Set os   GetObject  winmgmts root cimv2 Win32 OperatingSystem     os LocalDateTime   20131204215346 562000-300 Left os LocalDateTime  4       2013   year Mid os LocalDateTime  5  2     12     month Mid os LocalDateTime  7  2     04     day Mid os LocalDateTime  9  2     21     hour Mid os LocalDateTime  11  2    53     minute Mid os LocalDateTime  13  2    46     second  Dim wmi   Set wmi   GetObject  winmgmts root cimv2   Set timeZones   wmi ExecQuery  SELECT Bias  Caption FROM Win32 TimeZone   For Each tz In timeZones     tz Bias      -300     tz Caption    UTC-05 00  Eastern Time  US  amp  Canada  Next   Source

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To expound on Numenor s answer you can do something like  Format Now    HH mm ss    using these custom date time formating options    For everyone who is tempted to downvote this answer please be aware that the question was originally tagged VB and vbscript hence my answer  the VB tag was edited out leaving only the vbscript tag  The OP accepted this answer which I take to mean that it gave him the information that he needed

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nowreturns the current date and time

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There are also separate Time   and Date   functions

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For VBScript use FormatDateTime  which has 5 numerical arguments to give you one of 5 predefined formats   Its not great      FormatDateTime now  4    08 12

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This is an old question but alot of the answers in here use VB or VBA  The tag says vbscript  which is how I got here    The answers here got kind of muddled since VB is super broad where you can have so many applications of it  My answer is solely on vbscript and accomplishes my case of formatting in YYYYMMDD in vbscript  Sharing what I ve learned    There are all the DateTime functions in vbscript defined here so you can mix-n-match to get the result that you want What I needed was to get the current date and format it in YYYYMMDD to do that I just needed to concat DatePart like so for the current Date  date   DatePart  yyyy  Date   amp  DatePart  m  Date   amp  DatePart  d  Date    That s all  I hope this helps someone

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