How do I get the day month and year from a Windows cmd exe script

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How do I get the current day month and year from inside a Windows cmd script  I need to get each value into a separate variable

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To get the year  month  and day you can use the  date  environment variable and the    operator    date  expands to something like Thu 08 12 2010 and    allows you to pick up specific characters out of a variable   set year  date  10 4  set month  date  4 2  set day  date  7 2  set filename  year   month   day    Use  time  in similar fashion to get what you need from the current time   set    will give you more information on using special operators with variables

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I have converted to using Powershell calls for this purpose in my scripts  It requires script execution permission and is by far the slowest option  However it is also localization independent  very easy to write and read  and it is much more feasible to perform adjustments to the date like addition subtraction or get the last day of the month  etc   Here is how to get the day  month  and year  for  f   i in    powershell  Get-Date  ToString   dd       do set day   i for  f   i in    powershell  Get-Date  ToString   MM       do set month   i for  f   i in    powershell  Get-Date  ToString   yyyy       do set year   i   Or  here is yesterday s date in yyyy-MM-dd format  for  f   i in    powershell  Get-Date  AddDays -1  ToString   yyyy-MM-dd       do set yesterday   i  Day of the week  for  f   d in    powershell  Get-Date  DayOfWeek    do set DayOfWeek   d  Current time plus 15 minutes  for  f   i in    powershell  Get-Date  AddMinutes 15  ToString   HH mm       do set time   i

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echo  Date  7 2  gets current day   7 is starting position 2 number of digits to display  echo  Date  7 2  gets current day  echo  Date  4 2  gets current month  echo  Date  10 4  gets current year

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You can use simple variable syntax  here is an example    echo off set month  date  0 2  set day  date  3 2  set year  date  6 4  echo The current month is  month  echo The current day is  day  echo The current year is  year  pause  gt nul   Another option is the for command  again here is my example    echo off for  f  delims   tokens 1-3    a in    date    do   set month   a set day   b set year   c   echo The current month is  month  echo The current day is  day  echo The current year is  year  pause  gt nul

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Based on the great answers above  I would like to add this variation as a one-liner that simply assigns the year to the  year  environment variable  for  f  quot skip 1 tokens 2 delims   quot    y in   wmic PATH Win32 LocalTime GET Year  value   do set year   y

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Extract Day  Month and Year  The highest voted function and the accepted one do NOT work locale-independently since the DATE command is subject to localization too  For example  the accepted one   In English you have YYYY for year and in Holland it is JJJJ  So this is a no-go  The following script takes the users  localization from the registry  which is locale-independent     echo off      Begin set date setlocal EnableExtensions EnableDelayedExpansion     Determine short date format  independent from localization  from registry for  f  skip 1 tokens 3-5 delims -     L in    2  gt nul reg query  HKCU Control Panel International   v  sShortDate     do            Since we can have multiple  short  date formats we only use the first char from the format in a new variable     set   L   L   amp  amp  set   L   L  0 1    amp  amp  set   M   M   amp  amp  set   M   M  0 1    amp  amp  set   N   N   amp  amp  set   N   N  0 1           Now assign the date values to the new vars     for  f  tokens 2-4 delims  -      D in     date     do   set    L    D   amp  amp  set    M    E   amp  amp  set    N    F           Print the values as is echo  echo This is the original date string --  gt   date  echo These are the splitted values    --  gt  Day   d   Month  m   Year   y   echo   endlocal   Extract only the Year  For a script I wrote I wanted only to extract the year  locale-independent  so I came up with this oneliner as I couldn t find any solution   It uses the  DATE  var  multiple delimiters and checks for a number greater than 31  That then will be the current year  It s low on resources in contrast to some of the other solutions    echo off  setlocal EnableExtensions  for  f   tokens 2-4 delims -       D in     date     do   if   D gtr 31   set   YEAR   D    else   if   E gtr 31   set   YEAR   E    else   if   F gtr 31   set   YEAR   F           echo And the year is      YEAR   echo   endlocal

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LANGUAGE INDEPENDENCY   The Andrei Coscodan solution is language dependent  so a way to try to fix it is to reserve all the tags for each field  year  month and day on target languages  Consider Portugese and English  after the parsing do a final set as   set Year  yy  aa  set Month  mm  set Day  dd    Look for the year setting  I used both tags from English and Portuguese  it worked for me in Brazil where we have these two languages as the most common in Windows instalations  I expect this will work also for some languages with Latin origin like as French  Spanish  and so on   Well  the full script could be    echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion     Extract date fields - language dependent for  f  tokens 1-4 delims  -      i in   date  t   do           set v1   i amp  set v2   j amp  set v3   k         if    i  0 1    gtr  9   set v1   j amp  set v2   k amp  set v3   l           for  f  skip 1 tokens 2-4 delims  -     m in   echo   date   do               set   m  v1  amp  set   n  v2  amp  set   o  v3              Final set for language independency  English and Portuguese - maybe works for Spanish and French  set year  yy  aa  set month  mm  set day  dd       Testing echo Year   year   - month   month   - day   day    endlocal pause   I hope this helps someone that deal with diferent languages

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The following batch code returns the components of the current date in a locale-independent manner and stores day  month and year in the variables CurrDay  CurrMonth and CurrYear  respectively   for  F  skip 1 delims     F in        wmic PATH Win32 LocalTime GET Day  Month  Year  FORMAT TABLE    do       for  F  tokens 1-3    L in     F   do           set CurrDay 0  L         set CurrMonth 0  M         set CurrYear   N         set CurrDay  CurrDay  -2  set CurrMonth  CurrMonth  -2  echo Current day      CurrDay  echo Current month    CurrMonth  echo Current year   CurrYear    There are two nested for  F loops to work around an issue with the wmic command  whose output is in unicode format  using a single loop results in additional carriage-return characters which impacts proper variable expansion   Since day and month may also consist of a single digit only  I prepended a leading zero 0 in the loop construct  Afterwards  the values are trimmed to always consist of two digits

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A variant of script that works locale-independently  Put it in a text file with  cmd extension and run       Begin set date  for  f  tokens 1-4 delims  -      i in   date  t   do  call  set date   i   j   k   l  goto  end set date   set date if   1  0 1   gtr  9  shift for  f  skip 1 tokens 2-4 delims  -     m in   echo   date   do  set   m  1 amp set   n  2 amp set   o  3  goto  eof   end set date     End set date  echo day in  DD  format is  dd   month in  MM  format is  mm   year in  YYYY  format is  yy    The variables  dd    mm  and  yy  will keep the day  DD  format   the month  MM  format  and the year  YYYY  format  respectively

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The only reliably way I know is to use VBScript to do the heavy work for you  There is no portable way of getting the current date in a usable format with a batch file alone  The following VBScript file  Wscript Echo  set Year    amp  DatePart  yyyy   Date   Wscript Echo  set Month    amp  DatePart  m   Date   Wscript Echo  set Day    amp  DatePart  d   Date     and this batch snippet  for  f  delims     x in   cscript  nologo date vbs   do   x echo  Year - Month - Day    should work  though   While you can get the current date in a batch file with either date  t or the  date  pseudo-variable  both follow the current locale in what they display  Which means you get the date in potentially any format and you have no way of parsing that

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powershell Set-Date -Da  Get-Date -Y 1980 -Mon 11 -Day 17

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For one line   Try using for wmic OS Get localdatetime  find  quot   quot  in for  f without tokens and or delims  this works in any language   region and also  no user settings interfere with the layout of the output   In command line   for  f  i in   wmic OS Get localdatetime  find  quot   quot   do  cmd v c  quot set  date  i  amp echo  year    date  0 4  amp  amp echo month      date  4 2  amp echo   day      date  6 2  quot     In bat cmd file   for  f   i in   wmic OS Get localdatetime  find  quot   quot   do  cmd v c  quot set  date   i  amp echo  year    date  0 4  amp  amp echo month      date  4 2  amp echo   day      date  6 2  quot    Results     year  2019 month    06   day    12    With Hour and Minute in bat cmd file   for  f   i in   wmic OS Get localdatetime  find  quot   quot   do  cmd v c  quot set  date   i  amp echo   year    date  0 4  amp  amp echo  month      date  4 2  amp echo    day      date  6 2  amp echo   hour      date  8 2  amp echo minute      date  10 2  quot     With Hour and Minute in command line   for  f  i in   wmic OS Get localdatetime  find  quot   quot   do  cmd v c  quot set  date  i  amp echo   year    date  0 4  amp  amp echo  month      date  4 2  amp echo    day      date  6 2  amp echo   hour      date  8 2  amp echo minute      date  10 2  quot     Results      year  2020  month    05    day    16   hour    00 minute    46

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This variant works for all localizations    echo off FOR  F  skip 1 tokens 1-6    A IN   WMIC Path Win32 LocalTime Get Day  Hour  Minute  Month  Second  Year  Format table   DO       if    B  NEQ              SET  A FDATE   F 10000   D 100   A          echo on echo date  FDATE  echo year  FDATE  2 2  echo month  FDATE  4 2

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I think that Andrei Coscodan answer is the best when you can t make many assumptions   But sometimes having a one-liner is nice if you can make some some assumptions   This solution assumes that  date  t  will return one of two formats   On WindowsXP  date  t  returns  11 23 2011   but on Windows7 it returns  Wed 11 23 2011    FOR  f  tokens 1-4 delims       a in   date  t   do  set mm   a amp set dd   b amp set yyyy   c amp   if    a  0 1  gtr  9  set mm   b amp setdd   c amp set yyyy   d      Test results echo day in  DD  format is   dd    month in  MM  format is   mm    year in  YYYY  format is   yyyy     Thanks to Andrei Consodan answer to help me with this one-line solution

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