Print time in a batch file milliseconds

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How do I print the time  in ms  in a Windows batch file   I want to measure the time that passes between lines in my batch file  but Windows s  time  T  does not print milliseconds

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Maybe this tool  archived version   could help  It doesn t return the time  but it is a good tool to measure the time a command takes

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To time task in CMD is as simple as  echo  TIME   amp  amp  your command  amp  amp  cmd  v on  c echo  TIME

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TIME  is in the format H MM SS CS after midnight and hence conversion to centiseconds  doesn t work  Seeing Patrick Cuff s post with 6 46am it seems that it is not only me    But with this lines bevor you should will fix that problem easy   if        StartZeit  0 1   set StartZeit 0 StartZeit  -10  if        EndZeit  0 1   set EndZeit 0 EndZeit  -10    Thanks for your nice inspiration  I like to use it in my mplayer  ffmpeg  sox Scripts to pimp my mediafiles for old PocketPlayers just for fun

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Below batch  program  should do what you want  Please note that it outputs the data in centiseconds instead of milliseconds  The precision of the used commands is only centiseconds   Here is an example output   STARTTIME  13 42 52 25 ENDTIME  13 42 56 51 STARTTIME  4937225 centiseconds ENDTIME  4937651 centiseconds DURATION  426 in centiseconds 00 00 04 26   Here is the batch script    echo off setlocal  rem The format of  TIME  is HH MM SS CS for example 23 59 59 99 set STARTTIME  TIME   rem here begins the command you want to measure dir  s  gt  nul rem here ends the command you want to measure  set ENDTIME  TIME   rem output as time echo STARTTIME   STARTTIME  echo ENDTIME   ENDTIME   rem convert STARTTIME and ENDTIME to centiseconds set  A STARTTIME  1 STARTTIME  0 2 -100  360000    1 STARTTIME  3 2 -100  6000    1 STARTTIME  6 2 -100  100    1 STARTTIME  9 2 -100  set  A ENDTIME  1 ENDTIME  0 2 -100  360000    1 ENDTIME  3 2 -100  6000    1 ENDTIME  6 2 -100  100    1 ENDTIME  9 2 -100   rem calculating the duratyion is easy set  A DURATION  ENDTIME - STARTTIME   rem we might have measured the time inbetween days if  ENDTIME  LSS  STARTTIME  set set  A DURATION  STARTTIME - ENDTIME   rem now break the centiseconds down to hors  minutes  seconds and the remaining centiseconds set  A DURATIONH  DURATION    360000 set  A DURATIONM   DURATION  -  DURATIONH  360000    6000 set  A DURATIONS   DURATION  -  DURATIONH  360000 -  DURATIONM  6000    100 set  A DURATIONHS   DURATION  -  DURATIONH  360000 -  DURATIONM  6000 -  DURATIONS  100   rem some formatting if  DURATIONH  LSS 10 set DURATIONH 0 DURATIONH  if  DURATIONM  LSS 10 set DURATIONM 0 DURATIONM  if  DURATIONS  LSS 10 set DURATIONS 0 DURATIONS  if  DURATIONHS  LSS 10 set DURATIONHS 0 DURATIONHS   rem outputing echo STARTTIME   STARTTIME  centiseconds echo ENDTIME   ENDTIME  centiseconds echo DURATION   DURATION  in centiseconds echo  DURATIONH   DURATIONM   DURATIONS   DURATIONHS   endlocal goto  EOF

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You have to be careful with what you want to do  because it is not just about to get the time   The batch has internal variables to represent the date and the tme   DATE   TIME   But they dependent on the Windows Locale    Date     dd MM yyyy dd MM yy d M yy dd MM yy yyyy-MM-dd    TIME     H mm ss msec HH mm ss msec   Now  how long your script will work and when  For example  if it will be longer than a day and does pass the midnight it will definitely goes wrong  because difference between 2 timestamps between a midnight is a negative value  You need the date to find out correct distance between days  but how you do that if the date format is not a constant  Things with  DATE  and  TIME  might goes worser and worser if you continue to use them for the math purposes   The reason is the  DATE  and  TIME  are exist is only to show a date and a time to user in the output  not to use them for calculations  So if you want to make correct distance between some time values or generate some unique value dependent on date and time then you have to use something different and accurate than  DATE  and  TIME    I am using the wmic windows builtin utility to request such things  put it in a script file    for  F  usebackq tokens 1 2 delims      i in   wmic os get LocalDateTime  VALUE   do if    i      LocalDateTime  echo   j   or type it in the cmd exe console   for  F  usebackq tokens 1 2 delims     i in   wmic os get LocalDateTime  VALUE   do  if   i      LocalDateTime  echo  j   The disadvantage of this is a slow performance in case of frequent calls  On mine machine it is about 12 calls per second   If you want to continue use this then you can write something like this  get datetime bat     echo off  rem Description  rem   Independent to Windows locale date time request   rem Drop last error level cd    rem drop return value set  RETURN VALUE    for  F  usebackq tokens 1 2 delims      i in   wmic os get LocalDateTime  VALUE 2  gt NUL   do if    i      LocalDateTime  set  RETURN VALUE   j   if not   RETURN VALUE             set  RETURN VALUE  RETURN VALUE  0 18     exit  b 0    exit  b 1   Now  you can parse  RETURN VALUE  somethere in your script   call get datetime bat set  FILE SUFFIX  RETURN VALUE       set  FILE SUFFIX  FILE SUFFIX  8 2   FILE SUFFIX  10 2   FILE SUFFIX  12 6   echo  FILE SUFFIX

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If you re doing something like  for  l   i in  1 1 500  do  echo  time    or  if foo       echo  time      do something     echo  time      then you could simply put a setlocal enabledelayedexpansion at the beginning of your batch file and use  time  instead of  time  which gets evaluated on execution  not on parsing the line  which includes complete blocks enclosed in parentheses

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time  should work  provided enough time has elapsed between calls    echo OFF   echo  time  ping -n 1 -w 1 127 0 0 1 1 gt nul  echo  time    On my system I get the following output      6 46 13 50    6 46 13 60

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