How do I get current date time on the Windows command line in a suitable format for usage in a file folder name

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Update  Now that it s 2016 I d use PowerShell for this unless there s a really compelling backwards-compatible reason for it  particularly because of the regional settings issue with using date  See  npocmaka s https   stackoverflow com a 19799236 8479    What s a Windows command line statement s  I can use to get the current datetime in a format that I can put into a filename   I want to have a  bat file that zips up a directory into an archive with the current date and time as part of the name  for example  Code 2008-10-14 2257 zip  Is there any easy way I can do this  independent of the regional settings of the machine   I don t really mind about the date format  ideally it d be yyyy-mm-dd  but anything simple is fine   So far I ve got this  which on my machine gives me Tue 10 14 2008 230050 91   rem Get the datetime in a format that can go in a filename  set  my datetime  date   time  set  my datetime   my datetime      set  my datetime   my datetime     set  my datetime   my datetime      set  my datetime   my datetime       rem Now use the timestamp by in a new ZIP file name   d  Program Files 7-Zip 7z exe  a -r Code   my datetime  zip Code   I can live with this  but it seems a bit clunky  Ideally it d be briefer and have the format mentioned earlier   I m using Windows Server 2003 and Windows nbsp XP Professional  I don t want to install additional utilities to achieve this  although I realise there are some that will do nice date formatting

User · Answer

Two more ways that do not depend on the time settings (both taken from :How get data/time independent from localization:). And both also get the day of the week and none of them requires admin permissions!:

MAKECAB - will work on EVERY Windows system (fast, but creates a small temp file) (the foxidrive script):

@echo off
pushd "%temp%"
makecab /D RptFileName=~.rpt /D InfFileName=~.inf /f nul >nul
for /f "tokens=3-7" %%a in ('find /i "makecab"^<~.rpt') do (
   set "current-date=%%e-%%b-%%c"
   set "current-time=%%d"
   set "weekday=%%a"
)
del ~.*
popd
echo %weekday% %current-date% %current-time%
pause

More information about get-date function.

ROBOCOPY - it's not native command for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, but it can be downloaded from microsoft site. But is built-in in everything from Windows Vista and above:

@echo off
setlocal
for /f "skip=8 tokens=2,3,4,5,6,7,8 delims=: " %%D in ('robocopy /l * \ \ /ns /nc /ndl /nfl /np /njh /XF * /XD *') do (
 set "dow=%%D"
 set "month=%%E"
 set "day=%%F"
 set "HH=%%G"
 set "MM=%%H"
 set "SS=%%I"
 set "year=%%J"
)

echo Day of the week: %dow%
echo Day of the month : %day%
echo Month : %month%
echo hour : %HH%
echo minutes : %MM%
echo seconds : %SS%
echo year : %year%
endlocal

And three more ways that uses other Windows script languages. They will give you more flexibility e.g. you can get week of the year, time in milliseconds and so on.

JScript/batch hybrid (need to be saved as .bat). JScript is available on every system form NT and above, as a part of Windows Script Host (though can be disabled through the registry it's a rare case):

@if (@X)==(@Y) @end /* ---Harmless hybrid line that begins a JScript comment

@echo off
cscript //E:JScript //nologo "%~f0"
exit /b 0
*------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

function GetCurrentDate() {
        // Today date time which will used to set as default date.
        var todayDate = new Date();
        todayDate = todayDate.getFullYear() + "-" +
                       ("0" + (todayDate.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + "-" +
                       ("0" + todayDate.getDate()).slice(-2) + " " + ("0" + todayDate.getHours()).slice(-2) + ":" +
                       ("0" + todayDate.getMinutes()).slice(-2);

        return todayDate;
    }

WScript.Echo(GetCurrentDate());

VSCRIPT/BATCH hybrid (Is it possible to embed and execute VBScript within a batch file without using a temporary file?) same case as JScript, but hybridization is not so perfect:

:sub echo(str) :end sub
echo off
'>nul 2>&1|| copy /Y %windir%\System32\doskey.exe %windir%\System32\'.exe >nul
'& echo current date:
'& cscript /nologo /E:vbscript "%~f0"
'& exit /b

'0 = vbGeneralDate - Default. Returns date: mm/dd/yy and time if specified: hh:mm:ss PM/AM.
'1 = vbLongDate - Returns date: weekday, monthname, year
'2 = vbShortDate - Returns date: mm/dd/yy
'3 = vbLongTime - Returns time: hh:mm:ss PM/AM
'4 = vbShortTime - Return time: hh:mm

WScript.echo  Replace(FormatDateTime(Date,1),", ","-")

PowerShell - can be installed on every machine that has .NET - download from Microsoft (v1, v2, v3 (only for Windows 7 and above)). It is installed by default on everything from Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 and above:
```
C:\> powershell get-date -format "{dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm}"
```
To use it from a batch file:
```
for /f "delims=" %%# in ('powershell get-date -format "{dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm}"') do @set _date=%%#
```

Self-compiled jscript.net/batch (never seen a Windows machine without .NET, so I think this is a pretty portable):

@if (@X)==(@Y) @end /****** silent line that start JScript comment ******

@echo off
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::       Compile the script    ::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
setlocal
if exist "%~n0.exe" goto :skip_compilation

set "frm=%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\"

:: Searching the latest installed .NET framework
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%v in ('dir /b /s /a:d /o:-n "%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v*"') do (
    if exist "%%v\jsc.exe" (
        rem :: the javascript.net compiler
        set "jsc=%%~dpsnfxv\jsc.exe"
        goto :break_loop
    )
)
echo jsc.exe not found && exit /b 0
:break_loop


call %jsc% /nologo /out:"%~n0.exe" "%~dpsfnx0"
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::       End of compilation    ::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:skip_compilation

"%~n0.exe"

exit /b 0


****** End of JScript comment ******/
import System;
import System.IO;

var dt=DateTime.Now;
Console.WriteLine(dt.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"));

Logman This cannot get the year and day of the week. It's comparatively slow and also creates a temporary file and is based on the time stamps that logman puts on its log files. It will work on everything from Windows XP and above. It probably will be never used by anybody - including me - but is one more way...

@echo off
setlocal
del /q /f %temp%\timestampfile_*

Logman.exe stop ts-CPU 1>nul 2>&1
Logman.exe delete ts-CPU 1>nul 2>&1

Logman.exe create counter ts-CPU  -sc 2 -v mmddhhmm -max 250 -c "\Processor(_Total)\%% Processor Time" -o %temp%\timestampfile_ >nul
Logman.exe start ts-CPU 1>nul 2>&1

Logman.exe stop ts-CPU >nul 2>&1
Logman.exe delete ts-CPU >nul 2>&1
for /f "tokens=2 delims=_." %%t in  ('dir /b %temp%\timestampfile_*^&del /q/f %temp%\timestampfile_*') do set timestamp=%%t

echo %timestamp%
echo MM: %timestamp:~0,2%
echo dd: %timestamp:~2,2%
echo hh: %timestamp:~4,2%
echo mm: %timestamp:~6,2%

endlocal
exit /b 0

One more way with WMIC which also gives week of the year and the day of the week, but not the milliseconds (for milliseconds check foxidrive's answer):

for /f %%# in ('wMIC Path Win32_LocalTime Get /Format:value') do @for /f %%@ in ("%%#") do @set %%@
echo %day%
echo %DayOfWeek%
echo %hour%
echo %minute%
echo %month%
echo %quarter%
echo %second%
echo %weekinmonth%
echo %year%

Using TYPEPERF with some efforts to be fast and compatible with different language settings and as fast as possible:

@echo off
setlocal

:: Check if Windows is Windows XP and use Windows XP valid counter for UDP performance
::if defined USERDOMAIN_roamingprofile (set "v=v4") else (set "v=")

for /f "tokens=4 delims=. " %%# in ('ver') do if %%# GTR 5 (set "v=v4") else ("v=")
set "mon="
for /f "skip=2 delims=," %%# in ('typeperf "\UDP%v%\*" -si 0 -sc 1') do (
   if not defined mon (
      for /f "tokens=1-7 delims=.:/ " %%a in (%%#) do (
        set mon=%%a
        set date=%%b
        set year=%%c
        set hour=%%d
        set minute=%%e
        set sec=%%f
        set ms=%%g
      )
   )
)
echo %year%.%mon%.%date%
echo %hour%:%minute%:%sec%.%ms%
endlocal

MSHTA allows calling JavaScript methods similar to the JScript method demonstrated in #3 above. Bear in mind that JavaScript's Date object properties involving month values are numbered from 0 to 11, not 1 to 12. So a value of 9 means October.

<!-- : Batch portion

@echo off
setlocal

for /f "delims=" %%I in ('mshta "%~f0"') do set "now.%%~I"

rem Display all variables beginning with "now."
set now.

goto :EOF

end batch / begin HTA -->

<script>
    resizeTo(0,0)
    var fso = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject').GetStandardStream(1),
        now = new Date(),
        props=['getDate','getDay','getFullYear','getHours','getMilliseconds','getMinutes',
            'getMonth','getSeconds','getTime','getTimezoneOffset','getUTCDate','getUTCDay',
            'getUTCFullYear','getUTCHours','getUTCMilliseconds','getUTCMinutes','getUTCMonth',
            'getUTCSeconds','getYear','toDateString','toGMTString','toLocaleDateString',
            'toLocaleTimeString','toString','toTimeString','toUTCString','valueOf'],
        output = [];

    for (var i in props) {output.push(props[i] + '()=' + now[props[i]]())}
    close(fso.Write(output.join('\n')));
</script>

User · Answer

http   sourceforge net projects unxutils files   Look inside the ZIP file for something called  Date exe  and rename it  DateFormat exe   to avoid conflicts    Put it in your Windows system32 folder   It has a lot of  date output  options   For help  use DateFormat exe --h  I m not sure how you would put its output into an environment variable    using SET

User · Answer

Two more ways that do not depend on the time settings (both taken from :How get data/time independent from localization:). And both also get the day of the week and none of them requires admin permissions!:

MAKECAB - will work on EVERY Windows system (fast, but creates a small temp file) (the foxidrive script):

@echo off
pushd "%temp%"
makecab /D RptFileName=~.rpt /D InfFileName=~.inf /f nul >nul
for /f "tokens=3-7" %%a in ('find /i "makecab"^<~.rpt') do (
   set "current-date=%%e-%%b-%%c"
   set "current-time=%%d"
   set "weekday=%%a"
)
del ~.*
popd
echo %weekday% %current-date% %current-time%
pause

More information about get-date function.

ROBOCOPY - it's not native command for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, but it can be downloaded from microsoft site. But is built-in in everything from Windows Vista and above:

@echo off
setlocal
for /f "skip=8 tokens=2,3,4,5,6,7,8 delims=: " %%D in ('robocopy /l * \ \ /ns /nc /ndl /nfl /np /njh /XF * /XD *') do (
 set "dow=%%D"
 set "month=%%E"
 set "day=%%F"
 set "HH=%%G"
 set "MM=%%H"
 set "SS=%%I"
 set "year=%%J"
)

echo Day of the week: %dow%
echo Day of the month : %day%
echo Month : %month%
echo hour : %HH%
echo minutes : %MM%
echo seconds : %SS%
echo year : %year%
endlocal

And three more ways that uses other Windows script languages. They will give you more flexibility e.g. you can get week of the year, time in milliseconds and so on.

JScript/batch hybrid (need to be saved as .bat). JScript is available on every system form NT and above, as a part of Windows Script Host (though can be disabled through the registry it's a rare case):

@if (@X)==(@Y) @end /* ---Harmless hybrid line that begins a JScript comment

@echo off
cscript //E:JScript //nologo "%~f0"
exit /b 0
*------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

function GetCurrentDate() {
        // Today date time which will used to set as default date.
        var todayDate = new Date();
        todayDate = todayDate.getFullYear() + "-" +
                       ("0" + (todayDate.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + "-" +
                       ("0" + todayDate.getDate()).slice(-2) + " " + ("0" + todayDate.getHours()).slice(-2) + ":" +
                       ("0" + todayDate.getMinutes()).slice(-2);

        return todayDate;
    }

WScript.Echo(GetCurrentDate());

VSCRIPT/BATCH hybrid (Is it possible to embed and execute VBScript within a batch file without using a temporary file?) same case as JScript, but hybridization is not so perfect:

:sub echo(str) :end sub
echo off
'>nul 2>&1|| copy /Y %windir%\System32\doskey.exe %windir%\System32\'.exe >nul
'& echo current date:
'& cscript /nologo /E:vbscript "%~f0"
'& exit /b

'0 = vbGeneralDate - Default. Returns date: mm/dd/yy and time if specified: hh:mm:ss PM/AM.
'1 = vbLongDate - Returns date: weekday, monthname, year
'2 = vbShortDate - Returns date: mm/dd/yy
'3 = vbLongTime - Returns time: hh:mm:ss PM/AM
'4 = vbShortTime - Return time: hh:mm

WScript.echo  Replace(FormatDateTime(Date,1),", ","-")

PowerShell - can be installed on every machine that has .NET - download from Microsoft (v1, v2, v3 (only for Windows 7 and above)). It is installed by default on everything from Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 and above:
```
C:\> powershell get-date -format "{dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm}"
```
To use it from a batch file:
```
for /f "delims=" %%# in ('powershell get-date -format "{dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm}"') do @set _date=%%#
```

Self-compiled jscript.net/batch (never seen a Windows machine without .NET, so I think this is a pretty portable):

@if (@X)==(@Y) @end /****** silent line that start JScript comment ******

@echo off
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::       Compile the script    ::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
setlocal
if exist "%~n0.exe" goto :skip_compilation

set "frm=%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\"

:: Searching the latest installed .NET framework
for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%v in ('dir /b /s /a:d /o:-n "%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v*"') do (
    if exist "%%v\jsc.exe" (
        rem :: the javascript.net compiler
        set "jsc=%%~dpsnfxv\jsc.exe"
        goto :break_loop
    )
)
echo jsc.exe not found && exit /b 0
:break_loop


call %jsc% /nologo /out:"%~n0.exe" "%~dpsfnx0"
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:::       End of compilation    ::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:skip_compilation

"%~n0.exe"

exit /b 0


****** End of JScript comment ******/
import System;
import System.IO;

var dt=DateTime.Now;
Console.WriteLine(dt.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss"));

Logman This cannot get the year and day of the week. It's comparatively slow and also creates a temporary file and is based on the time stamps that logman puts on its log files. It will work on everything from Windows XP and above. It probably will be never used by anybody - including me - but is one more way...

@echo off
setlocal
del /q /f %temp%\timestampfile_*

Logman.exe stop ts-CPU 1>nul 2>&1
Logman.exe delete ts-CPU 1>nul 2>&1

Logman.exe create counter ts-CPU  -sc 2 -v mmddhhmm -max 250 -c "\Processor(_Total)\%% Processor Time" -o %temp%\timestampfile_ >nul
Logman.exe start ts-CPU 1>nul 2>&1

Logman.exe stop ts-CPU >nul 2>&1
Logman.exe delete ts-CPU >nul 2>&1
for /f "tokens=2 delims=_." %%t in  ('dir /b %temp%\timestampfile_*^&del /q/f %temp%\timestampfile_*') do set timestamp=%%t

echo %timestamp%
echo MM: %timestamp:~0,2%
echo dd: %timestamp:~2,2%
echo hh: %timestamp:~4,2%
echo mm: %timestamp:~6,2%

endlocal
exit /b 0

One more way with WMIC which also gives week of the year and the day of the week, but not the milliseconds (for milliseconds check foxidrive's answer):

for /f %%# in ('wMIC Path Win32_LocalTime Get /Format:value') do @for /f %%@ in ("%%#") do @set %%@
echo %day%
echo %DayOfWeek%
echo %hour%
echo %minute%
echo %month%
echo %quarter%
echo %second%
echo %weekinmonth%
echo %year%

Using TYPEPERF with some efforts to be fast and compatible with different language settings and as fast as possible:

@echo off
setlocal

:: Check if Windows is Windows XP and use Windows XP valid counter for UDP performance
::if defined USERDOMAIN_roamingprofile (set "v=v4") else (set "v=")

for /f "tokens=4 delims=. " %%# in ('ver') do if %%# GTR 5 (set "v=v4") else ("v=")
set "mon="
for /f "skip=2 delims=," %%# in ('typeperf "\UDP%v%\*" -si 0 -sc 1') do (
   if not defined mon (
      for /f "tokens=1-7 delims=.:/ " %%a in (%%#) do (
        set mon=%%a
        set date=%%b
        set year=%%c
        set hour=%%d
        set minute=%%e
        set sec=%%f
        set ms=%%g
      )
   )
)
echo %year%.%mon%.%date%
echo %hour%:%minute%:%sec%.%ms%
endlocal

MSHTA allows calling JavaScript methods similar to the JScript method demonstrated in #3 above. Bear in mind that JavaScript's Date object properties involving month values are numbered from 0 to 11, not 1 to 12. So a value of 9 means October.

<!-- : Batch portion

@echo off
setlocal

for /f "delims=" %%I in ('mshta "%~f0"') do set "now.%%~I"

rem Display all variables beginning with "now."
set now.

goto :EOF

end batch / begin HTA -->

<script>
    resizeTo(0,0)
    var fso = new ActiveXObject('Scripting.FileSystemObject').GetStandardStream(1),
        now = new Date(),
        props=['getDate','getDay','getFullYear','getHours','getMilliseconds','getMinutes',
            'getMonth','getSeconds','getTime','getTimezoneOffset','getUTCDate','getUTCDay',
            'getUTCFullYear','getUTCHours','getUTCMilliseconds','getUTCMinutes','getUTCMonth',
            'getUTCSeconds','getYear','toDateString','toGMTString','toLocaleDateString',
            'toLocaleTimeString','toString','toTimeString','toUTCString','valueOf'],
        output = [];

    for (var i in props) {output.push(props[i] + '()=' + now[props[i]]())}
    close(fso.Write(output.join('\n')));
</script>

User · Answer

Combine Powershell into a batch file and use the meta variables to assign each   echo off for  f  quot tokens 1-6 delims - quot    a in   PowerShell -Command  quot  amp   Get-Date -format  quot yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss quot   quot    do       echo year    a     echo month    b     echo day    c     echo hour    d     echo minute    e     echo second    f    You can also change the the format if you prefer name of the month MMM or MMMM and 12 hour to 24 hour formats hh or HH

User · Answer

I used date exe  and renamed it to date unxutils exe to avoid conflicts   Put it inside bin folder next to the batch script    Code    Add binaries to temp path IF EXIST bin SET PATH  PATH  bin     Create UTC Timestamp string in a custom format    Example  20210128172058 set timestamp command  date unxutils exe -u   quot   Y  m  d  H  M  S quot   FOR  F   i IN   timestamp command   DO set timestamp   i echo  timestamp   Download UnxUtils  Link   References  This awesome answer that I build upon

User · Answer

Regionally independent date time parsing  The output format of  DATE  and of the dir command is regionally dependent and thus neither robust nor smart  date exe  part of UnxUtils  delivers any date and time information in any thinkable format  You may also extract the date time information from any file with date exe   Examples    in a cmd-script use    instead of     date exe    Y- m- d  2009-12-22    date exe    T  18 55 03    date exe    Y m d  H M S  Any text  20091222 185503  Any text  date exe   Text   y  m  d-any text- H  M  Text  09 12 22-any text-18 55  Command  date exe    m- d     H  M  S      07-22  18 55 03    The date time information from a reference file  date exe -r c  file txt   The timestamp of file txt is   Y- m- d  H  M  S   Using it in a CMD script to get year  month  day  time information   for  f  tokens 1 2 3 4 5 6  delims      i in   C  Tools etc date exe     y   m   d   H   M   S    do set yy   i amp  set mo   j amp  set dd   k amp  set hh   l amp  set mm   m amp  set ss   n   Using it in a CMD script to get a timestamp in any required format   for  f  tokens      i in   C  Tools etc date exe     y-  m-  d   H   M   S    do set timestamp   i   Extracting the date time information from any reference file   for  f  tokens 1 2 3 4 5 6  delims      i in   C  Tools etc date exe -r file txt     y   m   d   H   M   S    do set yy   i amp  set mo   j amp  set dd   k amp  set hh   l amp  set mm   m amp  set ss   n   Adding to a file its date time information   for  f  tokens      i in   C  Tools etc date exe -r file txt     y-  m-  d   H  M  S    do ren file txt file   i txt   date exe is part of the free GNU tools which need no installation   NOTE  Copying date exe into any directory which is in the search path may cause other scripts to fail that use the Windows built-in date command

User · Answer

Just use this line   PowerShell -Command  get-date

User · Answer

A function that is based on wmic    Now  -- Gets the current date and time into separate variables         1   out  Year         2   out  Month         3   out  Day         4   out  Hour         5   out  Minute         6   out  Second   setlocal   for  f   t in   wmic os get LocalDateTime    findstr  b  0-9    do set T   t   endlocal  amp        if    1  neq    set   1  T  0 4      if    2  neq    set   2  T  4 2      if    3  neq    set   3  T  6 2      if    4  neq    set   4  T  8 2      if    5  neq    set   5  T  10 2      if    6  neq    set   6  T  12 2      goto eof   Upside  Region independent  Downside  Only system administrators can run wmic exe   Usage   call Now Y M D H N S echo  Y - M - D   H   N   S    This echos a string like this   2014-01-22 12 51 53   Note that function parameters are out-Parameters - that is  you must supply variable names instead of values   All parameters are optional  so call Now Y M is a valid call if you only want to get year and month

User · Answer

http   sourceforge net projects unxutils files   Look inside the ZIP file for something called  Date exe  and rename it  DateFormat exe   to avoid conflicts    Put it in your Windows system32 folder   It has a lot of  date output  options   For help  use DateFormat exe --h  I m not sure how you would put its output into an environment variable    using SET

User · Answer

This isn t really briefer but might be a more flexible way  credit    FOR  F  TOKENS 1  DELIMS      A IN   DATE T   DO SET CDATE   B FOR  F  TOKENS 1 2 eol   DELIMS       A IN   DATE T   DO SET mm   B FOR  F  TOKENS 1 2 DELIMS   eol      A IN   echo  CDATE    DO SET dd   B FOR  F  TOKENS 2 3 DELIMS       A IN   echo  CDATE    DO SET yyyy   B SET date  mm  dd  yyyy

User · Answer

This is what I ve used     Date Variables - replace characters that are not legal as part of filesystem file names  to produce name like  backup 04 15 08 7z   SET DT  date  SET DT  DT      SET DT  DT -        If you want further ideas for automating backups to 7-Zip archives  I have a free open project you can use or review for ideas  http   wittman org ziparcy

User · Answer

I use this  again not region independent  UK    set bklog  date  6 4 - date  3 2 - date  0 2   time  0 2  time  3 2

User · Answer

Unfortunately this is not immune to regional settings  but it does what you want   set hour  time  0 2  if   time  0 1        set hour 0 time  1 1  set  my datetime  date  10 4 - date  4 2 - date  7 2   hour  time  3 2    Amazing the stuff you can find on Wikipedia

User · Answer

And here is a similar batch-file for the time portion        http   stackoverflow com questions 203090 how-to-get-current-datetime-on-windows-command-line-in-a-suitable-format-for-usi    Works on any NT 2k machine independent of regional time settings       Gets the time in ISO 8601 24-hour format       Note that  time  gets you fractions of seconds  and time  t doesn t  but gets you AM PM if your locale supports that     Since ISO 8601 does not care about AM PM  we use  time          ECHO off     SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS     for  f  tokens 1-4 delims    -      i in   echo  time    do         set  hh    i       set  mm    j       set  ss    k       set  ff    l      ENDLOCAL  amp  SET v Hour   hh   amp  SET v Minute   mm   amp  SET v Second   ss   amp  SET v Fraction   ff        ECHO Now is Hour    V Hour   Minute    V Minute   Second    v Second   Fraction    v Fraction       set timestring  V Hour  V Minute  v Second   v Fraction      echo  timestring        EOF   --jeroen

User · Answer

Short answer         Start - Run   type   cmd  c  powershell get-date -format    yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss    clip       click into target media  Ctrl   V to paste the result    Long answer       echo off        START USAGE                                                                           SET THE NICETIME         SET NICETIME BOO        CALL GetNiceTime cmd          ECHO NICETIME IS  NICETIME          echo nice time is  NICETIME         END USAGE                                                                          echo set hhmmsss        this is Regional settings dependant so tweak this according your current settings     for  f  tokens 1-3 delims      a in   echo  time    do set hhmmsss   a  b  c        DEBUG ECHO hhmmsss IS  hhmmsss        DEBUG PAUSE     echo  yyyymmdd             this is Regional settings dependant so tweak this according your current settings     for  f  tokens 1-3 delims      D in   echo  DATE    do set  yyyymmdd   F  E  D       DEBUG ECHO yyyymmdd IS  yyyymmdd        DEBUG PAUSE       set NICETIME  yyyymmdd   hhmmsss        DEBUG echo THE NICETIME IS  NICETIME         DEBUG PAUSE

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This isn t really briefer but might be a more flexible way  credit    FOR  F  TOKENS 1  DELIMS      A IN   DATE T   DO SET CDATE   B FOR  F  TOKENS 1 2 eol   DELIMS       A IN   DATE T   DO SET mm   B FOR  F  TOKENS 1 2 DELIMS   eol      A IN   echo  CDATE    DO SET dd   B FOR  F  TOKENS 2 3 DELIMS       A IN   echo  CDATE    DO SET yyyy   B SET date  mm  dd  yyyy

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See Windows Batch File   bat  to get current date in MMDDYYYY format    echo off For  f  tokens 2-4 delims       a in   date  t   do  set mydate   c-  a-  b  For  f  tokens 1-2 delims       a in   time  t   do  set mytime   a  b  echo  mydate   mytime    If you prefer the time in 24 hour military format  you can replace the second FOR line with this   For  f  tokens 1-2 delims       a in    TIME    do  set mytime   a  b       C     date bat    2008-10-14 0642   If you want the date independently of the region day month order  you can use  WMIC os GET LocalDateTime  as a source  since it s in ISO order    echo off for  F  usebackq tokens 1 2 delims      i in   wmic os get LocalDateTime  VALUE 2  gt NUL   do if     i      LocalDateTime   set ldt   j set ldt  ldt  0 4 - ldt  4 2 - ldt  6 2   ldt  8 2   ldt  10 2   ldt  12 6  echo Local date is   ldt        C  test cmd   Local date is  2012-06-19 10 23 47 048

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Matthew Johnson s one-liner solution to get the one-liner date and time is eloquent and useful   It does however need a simple modification to work from within a batch file   for  f  tokens 2 3 4 5 6 usebackq delims        a in    date   time    do echo   c-  a-  b   d  e

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Here s a variant from alt msdos batch nt that works local-independently   Put this in a text file  e g  getDate cmd  -----------8 lt ------8 lt ------------ snip -- snip ----------8 lt -------------        Works on any NT 2k machine independent of regional date settings      ECHO off     SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS     if   date A  LSS  A   set toks 1-3  else  set toks 2-4      for  f  tokens 2-4 delims  -     a in   echo   date   do         for  f  tokens  toks  delims  -      i in   date t   do           set    a    i         set    b    j         set    c    k       if   yy   LSS 100 set  yy  20  yy       set Today   yy  -  mm  -  dd        ENDLOCAL  amp  SET v year   yy   amp  SET v month   mm   amp  SET v day   dd        ECHO Today is Year    V Year   Month    V Month   Day    V Day         EOF -----------8 lt ------8 lt ------------ snip -- snip ----------8 lt -------------   To get the code to work sans error msg s to stderr  I had to add the single quotes arount the variable assignments for   a    b and   c   My locale  PT  was causing errors at one stage in the looping parsing where stuff like  set  20  was getting executed  The quotes yield a token  albeit empty  for the left-hand side of the assignment statement   The downside is the messy locale variable names   yy    mm  and  dd   But hey  who cares

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Another way  credit     For  F  tokens 2 3 4 delims       A in   Date  t   do         Set Month   A     Set Day   B     Set Year   C     echo DAY    Day   echo Month    Month   echo Year    Year    Note that both my answers here are still reliant on the order of the day and month as determined by regional settings - not sure how to work around that

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Unfortunately this is not immune to regional settings  but it does what you want   set hour  time  0 2  if   time  0 1        set hour 0 time  1 1  set  my datetime  date  10 4 - date  4 2 - date  7 2   hour  time  3 2    Amazing the stuff you can find on Wikipedia

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GetDate cmd - gt  Uses WMIC exe to get current date and time in ISO 8601 format    - Sets environment variables   isotime  and   now  to current time    - On failure  clears these environment variables    Inspired on - gt  https   ss64 com nt syntax-getdate html    -  cX  2017 adolfo dimare gmail com    - http   stackoverflow com questions 203090  echo off  set  isotime  set  now      Check that WMIC exe is available WMIC exe Alias     gt NUL 2 gt  amp 1    goto  WMIC MISSING   if not   1      goto  help SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion     Use WMIC exe to retrieve date and time FOR  F  skip 1 tokens 1-6    G IN   WMIC exe Path Win32 LocalTime Get Day  Hour  Minute  Month  Second  Year  Format table   DO       IF     L      goto   WMIC done          set  yyyy   L         set  mm 00  J         set  dd 00  G         set  hour 00  H         set  minute 00  I         set  second 00  K     WMIC done        1    2     3       4      5      6      G    H      I       J      K      L    Day  Hour  Minute  Month  Second  Year    27   9     35      4      38      2017     Remove excess leading zeroes         set  mm   mm  -2          set  dd   dd  -2          set  hour   hour  -2          set  minute   minute  -2          set  second   second  -2     Syntax - gt   variable  num chars to skip num chars to keep      Set date time in ISO 8601 format          Set  isotime   yyyy -  mm -  dd T  hour    minute    second     - gt  http   google com search num 100 amp q ISO 8601 format  if 1  hour  LSS 112 set  now   isotime  0 10    hour    minute    second am if 1  hour  LSS 112 goto  skip 12      set  a  hour 1  hour -12     set  hour   hour  -2      set  now   isotime  0 10    hour    minute    second pm        - gt  https   ss64 com nt if html        - gt  http   google com search num 100 amp q SetLocal EndLocal Windows         if    else     will NOT set   now  correctly      skip 12   EndLocal  amp  set  isotime   isotime   amp  set  now   now  goto  out    WMIC MISSING  echo  echo WMIC exe command not available echo - WMIC exe needs Administrator privileges to run in Windows echo - Usually the path to WMIC exe is   windir  System32 wbem WMIC exe     help echo  echo GetDate cmd  Uses WMIC exe to get current date and time in ISO 8601 format echo  echo       now       environment variable set to current date and time echo       isotime   environment variable to current time in ISO format echo    set  today    isotime  0 10   echo     out    EOF  GetDate cmd

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Here s a way to get date time in a single line   for  f  tokens 2 3 4 5 6 usebackq delims       a in    date   time    do echo  c- a- b  d e   In the US this will output  yyyy-mm-dd hhmm   Different regional settings will result in different  date  outputs  but you can modify the token order   If you want a different format  modify the echo statement by rearranging the tokens or using different  or no  separators

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With Windows 7  this code works for me   SET DATE  date  SET YEAR  DATE  0 4  SET MONTH  DATE  5 2  SET DAY  DATE  8 2  ECHO  YEAR  ECHO  MONTH  ECHO  DAY   SET DATE FRM  YEAR - MONTH - DAY   ECHO  DATE FRM

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I changed the answer with the batch file from vMax so it works with the Dutch language too  The Dutch - persistent as we are - have a few changes in the  date   date t  and date that break the original batch-file   It would be nice if some people can check this against other Windows locales as well  and report back the results  If the batch-file fails at your location  then please include the output of these two statements on the command prompt  echo   date date t    This is a sample of the output you should get from the batch-file   C  temp gt set-date-cmd bat Today is Year   2011  Month   01  Day   03  20110103   Here is the revised code with comments on why      https   stackoverflow com questions 203090 how-to-get-current-datetime-on-windows-command-line-in-a-suitable-format-for-usi    Works on any NT 2k machine independent of regional date settings       20110103 - adapted by jeroen pluimers com for Dutch locale    Dutch will get jj as year from echo   date  so the    c  trick does not work as it will fill  jj   but we want  yy     luckily  all countries seem to have year at the end  http   en wikipedia org wiki Calendar date               set    c    k               set  yy    k       In addition  date will display the current date before the input prompt using dashes    in Dutch  but using slashes in English  so there will be two occurances of the outer loop in Dutch    and one occurence in English     This skips the first iteration            if    a  GEQ  A        echo   date    Huidige datum  ma 03-01-2011    Voer de nieuwe datum in   dd-mm-jj     The current date is  Mon 01 03 2011    Enter the new date   mm-dd-yy        date t    ma 03-01-2011    Mon 01 03 2011       The assumption in this batch-file is that echo   date will return the date format    using either mm and dd or dd and mm in the first two valid tokens on the second line  and the year as the last token        The outer loop will get the right tokens  the inner loop assigns the variables depending on the tokens     That will resolve the order of the tokens      ECHO off     set v day      set v month      set v year       SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS     if   date A  LSS  A   set toks 1-3  else  set toks 2-4    DEBUG echo toks  toks        for  f  tokens 2-4 delims  -     a in   echo   date   do     DEBUG echo first token   a         if    a  GEQ  A              for  f  tokens  toks  delims  -      i in   date t   do               set    a    i             set    b    j             set  yy    k                                     if   yy   LSS 100 set  yy  20  yy         set Today   yy  -  mm  -  dd        ENDLOCAL  amp  SET v year   yy   amp  SET v month   mm   amp  SET v day   dd        ECHO Today is Year    V Year   Month    V Month   Day    V Day       set datestring  V Year  V Month  V Day      echo  datestring        EOF   --jeroen

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I know that there are numerous ways mentioned already  But here is my way to break it down to understand how it is done  Hopefully  it is helpful for someone who like step by step method      Check your local date format echo  date          Output is Mon 08 15 2016     get day  start index  number of characters              index starts with zero  set myday  DATE  0 4  echo  myday         output is Mon      get month set mymonth  DATE  4 2  echo  mymonth         output is 08     get date  set mydate  DATE  7 2   echo  mydate         output is 15     get year set myyear  DATE  10 4  echo  myyear         output is 2016

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I changed the answer with the batch file from vMax so it works with the Dutch language too  The Dutch - persistent as we are - have a few changes in the  date   date t  and date that break the original batch-file   It would be nice if some people can check this against other Windows locales as well  and report back the results  If the batch-file fails at your location  then please include the output of these two statements on the command prompt  echo   date date t    This is a sample of the output you should get from the batch-file   C  temp gt set-date-cmd bat Today is Year   2011  Month   01  Day   03  20110103   Here is the revised code with comments on why      https   stackoverflow com questions 203090 how-to-get-current-datetime-on-windows-command-line-in-a-suitable-format-for-usi    Works on any NT 2k machine independent of regional date settings       20110103 - adapted by jeroen pluimers com for Dutch locale    Dutch will get jj as year from echo   date  so the    c  trick does not work as it will fill  jj   but we want  yy     luckily  all countries seem to have year at the end  http   en wikipedia org wiki Calendar date               set    c    k               set  yy    k       In addition  date will display the current date before the input prompt using dashes    in Dutch  but using slashes in English  so there will be two occurances of the outer loop in Dutch    and one occurence in English     This skips the first iteration            if    a  GEQ  A        echo   date    Huidige datum  ma 03-01-2011    Voer de nieuwe datum in   dd-mm-jj     The current date is  Mon 01 03 2011    Enter the new date   mm-dd-yy        date t    ma 03-01-2011    Mon 01 03 2011       The assumption in this batch-file is that echo   date will return the date format    using either mm and dd or dd and mm in the first two valid tokens on the second line  and the year as the last token        The outer loop will get the right tokens  the inner loop assigns the variables depending on the tokens     That will resolve the order of the tokens      ECHO off     set v day      set v month      set v year       SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS     if   date A  LSS  A   set toks 1-3  else  set toks 2-4    DEBUG echo toks  toks        for  f  tokens 2-4 delims  -     a in   echo   date   do     DEBUG echo first token   a         if    a  GEQ  A              for  f  tokens  toks  delims  -      i in   date t   do               set    a    i             set    b    j             set  yy    k                                     if   yy   LSS 100 set  yy  20  yy         set Today   yy  -  mm  -  dd        ENDLOCAL  amp  SET v year   yy   amp  SET v month   mm   amp  SET v day   dd        ECHO Today is Year    V Year   Month    V Month   Day    V Day       set datestring  V Year  V Month  V Day      echo  datestring        EOF   --jeroen

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See Windows Batch File   bat  to get current date in MMDDYYYY format    echo off For  f  tokens 2-4 delims       a in   date  t   do  set mydate   c-  a-  b  For  f  tokens 1-2 delims       a in   time  t   do  set mytime   a  b  echo  mydate   mytime    If you prefer the time in 24 hour military format  you can replace the second FOR line with this   For  f  tokens 1-2 delims       a in    TIME    do  set mytime   a  b       C     date bat    2008-10-14 0642   If you want the date independently of the region day month order  you can use  WMIC os GET LocalDateTime  as a source  since it s in ISO order    echo off for  F  usebackq tokens 1 2 delims      i in   wmic os get LocalDateTime  VALUE 2  gt NUL   do if     i      LocalDateTime   set ldt   j set ldt  ldt  0 4 - ldt  4 2 - ldt  6 2   ldt  8 2   ldt  10 2   ldt  12 6  echo Local date is   ldt        C  test cmd   Local date is  2012-06-19 10 23 47 048

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See Windows Batch File   bat  to get current date in MMDDYYYY format    echo off For  f  tokens 2-4 delims       a in   date  t   do  set mydate   c-  a-  b  For  f  tokens 1-2 delims       a in   time  t   do  set mytime   a  b  echo  mydate   mytime    If you prefer the time in 24 hour military format  you can replace the second FOR line with this   For  f  tokens 1-2 delims       a in    TIME    do  set mytime   a  b       C     date bat    2008-10-14 0642   If you want the date independently of the region day month order  you can use  WMIC os GET LocalDateTime  as a source  since it s in ISO order    echo off for  F  usebackq tokens 1 2 delims      i in   wmic os get LocalDateTime  VALUE 2  gt NUL   do if     i      LocalDateTime   set ldt   j set ldt  ldt  0 4 - ldt  4 2 - ldt  6 2   ldt  8 2   ldt  10 2   ldt  12 6  echo Local date is   ldt        C  test cmd   Local date is  2012-06-19 10 23 47 048

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This is what I ve used     Date Variables - replace characters that are not legal as part of filesystem file names  to produce name like  backup 04 15 08 7z   SET DT  date  SET DT  DT      SET DT  DT -        If you want further ideas for automating backups to 7-Zip archives  I have a free open project you can use or review for ideas  http   wittman org ziparcy

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Another way  credit     For  F  tokens 2 3 4 delims       A in   Date  t   do         Set Month   A     Set Day   B     Set Year   C     echo DAY    Day   echo Month    Month   echo Year    Year    Note that both my answers here are still reliant on the order of the day and month as determined by regional settings - not sure how to work around that

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The first four lines of this code will give you reliable YY DD MM YYYY HH Min Sec variables in Windows nbsp XP Professional and higher    echo off for  f  tokens 2 delims      a in   wmic OS Get localdatetime  value   do set  dt   a  set  YY  dt  2 2    amp  set  YYYY  dt  0 4    amp  set  MM  dt  4 2    amp  set  DD  dt  6 2   set  HH  dt  8 2    amp  set  Min  dt  10 2    amp  set  Sec  dt  12 2    set  datestamp  YYYY  MM  DD    amp  set  timestamp  HH  Min  Sec    amp  set  fullstamp  YYYY - MM - DD   HH  Min - Sec   echo datestamp    datestamp   echo timestamp    timestamp   echo fullstamp    fullstamp   pause

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I note that the o p did not ask for a region-independent solution  My solution is for the UK though   This is the simplest possible solution  a 1-line solution  for use in a Batch file   FOR  F  tokens 1-3 delims      A IN    date    DO  SET today   C-  B-  A  echo  today

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The first four lines of this code will give you reliable YY DD MM YYYY HH Min Sec variables in Windows nbsp XP Professional and higher    echo off for  f  tokens 2 delims      a in   wmic OS Get localdatetime  value   do set  dt   a  set  YY  dt  2 2    amp  set  YYYY  dt  0 4    amp  set  MM  dt  4 2    amp  set  DD  dt  6 2   set  HH  dt  8 2    amp  set  Min  dt  10 2    amp  set  Sec  dt  12 2    set  datestamp  YYYY  MM  DD    amp  set  timestamp  HH  Min  Sec    amp  set  fullstamp  YYYY - MM - DD   HH  Min - Sec   echo datestamp    datestamp   echo timestamp    timestamp   echo fullstamp    fullstamp   pause

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d  Program Files 7-Zip 7z exe  a -r code  date  10 4 - date  4 2 - date  7 2  zip

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Here s a way to get date time in a single line   for  f  tokens 2 3 4 5 6 usebackq delims       a in    date   time    do echo  c- a- b  d e   In the US this will output  yyyy-mm-dd hhmm   Different regional settings will result in different  date  outputs  but you can modify the token order   If you want a different format  modify the echo statement by rearranging the tokens or using different  or no  separators

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Another way  credit     For  F  tokens 2 3 4 delims       A in   Date  t   do         Set Month   A     Set Day   B     Set Year   C     echo DAY    Day   echo Month    Month   echo Year    Year    Note that both my answers here are still reliant on the order of the day and month as determined by regional settings - not sure how to work around that

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This isn t really briefer but might be a more flexible way  credit    FOR  F  TOKENS 1  DELIMS      A IN   DATE T   DO SET CDATE   B FOR  F  TOKENS 1 2 eol   DELIMS       A IN   DATE T   DO SET mm   B FOR  F  TOKENS 1 2 DELIMS   eol      A IN   echo  CDATE    DO SET dd   B FOR  F  TOKENS 2 3 DELIMS       A IN   echo  CDATE    DO SET yyyy   B SET date  mm  dd  yyyy

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This isn t really briefer but might be a more flexible way  credit    FOR  F  TOKENS 1  DELIMS      A IN   DATE T   DO SET CDATE   B FOR  F  TOKENS 1 2 eol   DELIMS       A IN   DATE T   DO SET mm   B FOR  F  TOKENS 1 2 DELIMS   eol      A IN   echo  CDATE    DO SET dd   B FOR  F  TOKENS 2 3 DELIMS       A IN   echo  CDATE    DO SET yyyy   B SET date  mm  dd  yyyy

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And here is a similar batch-file for the time portion        http   stackoverflow com questions 203090 how-to-get-current-datetime-on-windows-command-line-in-a-suitable-format-for-usi    Works on any NT 2k machine independent of regional time settings       Gets the time in ISO 8601 24-hour format       Note that  time  gets you fractions of seconds  and time  t doesn t  but gets you AM PM if your locale supports that     Since ISO 8601 does not care about AM PM  we use  time          ECHO off     SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS     for  f  tokens 1-4 delims    -      i in   echo  time    do         set  hh    i       set  mm    j       set  ss    k       set  ff    l      ENDLOCAL  amp  SET v Hour   hh   amp  SET v Minute   mm   amp  SET v Second   ss   amp  SET v Fraction   ff        ECHO Now is Hour    V Hour   Minute    V Minute   Second    v Second   Fraction    v Fraction       set timestring  V Hour  V Minute  v Second   v Fraction      echo  timestring        EOF   --jeroen

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This is what I ve used     Date Variables - replace characters that are not legal as part of filesystem file names  to produce name like  backup 04 15 08 7z   SET DT  date  SET DT  DT      SET DT  DT -        If you want further ideas for automating backups to 7-Zip archives  I have a free open project you can use or review for ideas  http   wittman org ziparcy

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Please use the following script to get the current day in the command line   echo  Date  0 3 day

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See Windows Batch File   bat  to get current date in MMDDYYYY format    echo off For  f  tokens 2-4 delims       a in   date  t   do  set mydate   c-  a-  b  For  f  tokens 1-2 delims       a in   time  t   do  set mytime   a  b  echo  mydate   mytime    If you prefer the time in 24 hour military format  you can replace the second FOR line with this   For  f  tokens 1-2 delims       a in    TIME    do  set mytime   a  b       C     date bat    2008-10-14 0642   If you want the date independently of the region day month order  you can use  WMIC os GET LocalDateTime  as a source  since it s in ISO order    echo off for  F  usebackq tokens 1 2 delims      i in   wmic os get LocalDateTime  VALUE 2  gt NUL   do if     i      LocalDateTime   set ldt   j set ldt  ldt  0 4 - ldt  4 2 - ldt  6 2   ldt  8 2   ldt  10 2   ldt  12 6  echo Local date is   ldt        C  test cmd   Local date is  2012-06-19 10 23 47 048

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A function that is based on wmic    Now  -- Gets the current date and time into separate variables         1   out  Year         2   out  Month         3   out  Day         4   out  Hour         5   out  Minute         6   out  Second   setlocal   for  f   t in   wmic os get LocalDateTime    findstr  b  0-9    do set T   t   endlocal  amp        if    1  neq    set   1  T  0 4      if    2  neq    set   2  T  4 2      if    3  neq    set   3  T  6 2      if    4  neq    set   4  T  8 2      if    5  neq    set   5  T  10 2      if    6  neq    set   6  T  12 2      goto eof   Upside  Region independent  Downside  Only system administrators can run wmic exe   Usage   call Now Y M D H N S echo  Y - M - D   H   N   S    This echos a string like this   2014-01-22 12 51 53   Note that function parameters are out-Parameters - that is  you must supply variable names instead of values   All parameters are optional  so call Now Y M is a valid call if you only want to get year and month

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Another way  credit     For  F  tokens 2 3 4 delims       A in   Date  t   do         Set Month   A     Set Day   B     Set Year   C     echo DAY    Day   echo Month    Month   echo Year    Year    Note that both my answers here are still reliant on the order of the day and month as determined by regional settings - not sure how to work around that

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GetDate cmd - gt  Uses WMIC exe to get current date and time in ISO 8601 format    - Sets environment variables   isotime  and   now  to current time    - On failure  clears these environment variables    Inspired on - gt  https   ss64 com nt syntax-getdate html    -  cX  2017 adolfo dimare gmail com    - http   stackoverflow com questions 203090  echo off  set  isotime  set  now      Check that WMIC exe is available WMIC exe Alias     gt NUL 2 gt  amp 1    goto  WMIC MISSING   if not   1      goto  help SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion     Use WMIC exe to retrieve date and time FOR  F  skip 1 tokens 1-6    G IN   WMIC exe Path Win32 LocalTime Get Day  Hour  Minute  Month  Second  Year  Format table   DO       IF     L      goto   WMIC done          set  yyyy   L         set  mm 00  J         set  dd 00  G         set  hour 00  H         set  minute 00  I         set  second 00  K     WMIC done        1    2     3       4      5      6      G    H      I       J      K      L    Day  Hour  Minute  Month  Second  Year    27   9     35      4      38      2017     Remove excess leading zeroes         set  mm   mm  -2          set  dd   dd  -2          set  hour   hour  -2          set  minute   minute  -2          set  second   second  -2     Syntax - gt   variable  num chars to skip num chars to keep      Set date time in ISO 8601 format          Set  isotime   yyyy -  mm -  dd T  hour    minute    second     - gt  http   google com search num 100 amp q ISO 8601 format  if 1  hour  LSS 112 set  now   isotime  0 10    hour    minute    second am if 1  hour  LSS 112 goto  skip 12      set  a  hour 1  hour -12     set  hour   hour  -2      set  now   isotime  0 10    hour    minute    second pm        - gt  https   ss64 com nt if html        - gt  http   google com search num 100 amp q SetLocal EndLocal Windows         if    else     will NOT set   now  correctly      skip 12   EndLocal  amp  set  isotime   isotime   amp  set  now   now  goto  out    WMIC MISSING  echo  echo WMIC exe command not available echo - WMIC exe needs Administrator privileges to run in Windows echo - Usually the path to WMIC exe is   windir  System32 wbem WMIC exe     help echo  echo GetDate cmd  Uses WMIC exe to get current date and time in ISO 8601 format echo  echo       now       environment variable set to current date and time echo       isotime   environment variable to current time in ISO format echo    set  today    isotime  0 10   echo     out    EOF  GetDate cmd

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Regional independent solution generating the ISO date format   rem save the existing format definition for  f  skip 2 tokens 3    a in   reg query  HKCU Control Panel International   v sShortDate   do set FORMAT   a rem set ISO specific format definition reg add  HKCU Control Panel International   v sShortDate  t REG SZ  f  d yyyy-MM-dd 1 gt nul  rem query the date in the ISO specific format  set ISODATE  DATE  rem restore previous format definition reg add  HKCU Control Panel International   v sShortDate  t REG SZ  f  d  FORMAT  1 gt nul    What could still be optimized  Other processes might get confused if using the date format in the short period while it is modified  So parsing the output according to the existing format string could be  safer  - but will be more complicated

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d  Program Files 7-Zip 7z exe  a -r code  date  10 4 - date  4 2 - date  7 2  zip

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This is what I ve used     Date Variables - replace characters that are not legal as part of filesystem file names  to produce name like  backup 04 15 08 7z   SET DT  date  SET DT  DT      SET DT  DT -        If you want further ideas for automating backups to 7-Zip archives  I have a free open project you can use or review for ideas  http   wittman org ziparcy

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I used date exe  and renamed it to date unxutils exe to avoid conflicts   Put it inside bin folder next to the batch script    Code    Add binaries to temp path IF EXIST bin SET PATH  PATH  bin     Create UTC Timestamp string in a custom format    Example  20210128172058 set timestamp command  date unxutils exe -u   quot   Y  m  d  H  M  S quot   FOR  F   i IN   timestamp command   DO set timestamp   i echo  timestamp   Download UnxUtils  Link   References  This awesome answer that I build upon

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I note that the o p did not ask for a region-independent solution  My solution is for the UK though   This is the simplest possible solution  a 1-line solution  for use in a Batch file   FOR  F  tokens 1-3 delims      A IN    date    DO  SET today   C-  B-  A  echo  today

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I use this  again not region independent  UK    set bklog  date  6 4 - date  3 2 - date  0 2   time  0 2  time  3 2

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Unfortunately this is not immune to regional settings  but it does what you want   set hour  time  0 2  if   time  0 1        set hour 0 time  1 1  set  my datetime  date  10 4 - date  4 2 - date  7 2   hour  time  3 2    Amazing the stuff you can find on Wikipedia

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Matthew Johnson s one-liner solution to get the one-liner date and time is eloquent and useful   It does however need a simple modification to work from within a batch file   for  f  tokens 2 3 4 5 6 usebackq delims        a in    date   time    do echo   c-  a-  b   d  e

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Combine Powershell into a batch file and use the meta variables to assign each   echo off for  f  quot tokens 1-6 delims - quot    a in   PowerShell -Command  quot  amp   Get-Date -format  quot yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss quot   quot    do       echo year    a     echo month    b     echo day    c     echo hour    d     echo minute    e     echo second    f    You can also change the the format if you prefer name of the month MMM or MMMM and 12 hour to 24 hour formats hh or HH

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Unfortunately this is not immune to regional settings  but it does what you want   set hour  time  0 2  if   time  0 1        set hour 0 time  1 1  set  my datetime  date  10 4 - date  4 2 - date  7 2   hour  time  3 2    Amazing the stuff you can find on Wikipedia

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I know that there are numerous ways mentioned already  But here is my way to break it down to understand how it is done  Hopefully  it is helpful for someone who like step by step method      Check your local date format echo  date          Output is Mon 08 15 2016     get day  start index  number of characters              index starts with zero  set myday  DATE  0 4  echo  myday         output is Mon      get month set mymonth  DATE  4 2  echo  mymonth         output is 08     get date  set mydate  DATE  7 2   echo  mydate         output is 15     get year set myyear  DATE  10 4  echo  myyear         output is 2016

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Here s a variant from alt msdos batch nt that works local-independently   Put this in a text file  e g  getDate cmd  -----------8 lt ------8 lt ------------ snip -- snip ----------8 lt -------------        Works on any NT 2k machine independent of regional date settings      ECHO off     SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS     if   date A  LSS  A   set toks 1-3  else  set toks 2-4      for  f  tokens 2-4 delims  -     a in   echo   date   do         for  f  tokens  toks  delims  -      i in   date t   do           set    a    i         set    b    j         set    c    k       if   yy   LSS 100 set  yy  20  yy       set Today   yy  -  mm  -  dd        ENDLOCAL  amp  SET v year   yy   amp  SET v month   mm   amp  SET v day   dd        ECHO Today is Year    V Year   Month    V Month   Day    V Day         EOF -----------8 lt ------8 lt ------------ snip -- snip ----------8 lt -------------   To get the code to work sans error msg s to stderr  I had to add the single quotes arount the variable assignments for   a    b and   c   My locale  PT  was causing errors at one stage in the looping parsing where stuff like  set  20  was getting executed  The quotes yield a token  albeit empty  for the left-hand side of the assignment statement   The downside is the messy locale variable names   yy    mm  and  dd   But hey  who cares

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Regionally independent date time parsing  The output format of  DATE  and of the dir command is regionally dependent and thus neither robust nor smart  date exe  part of UnxUtils  delivers any date and time information in any thinkable format  You may also extract the date time information from any file with date exe   Examples    in a cmd-script use    instead of     date exe    Y- m- d  2009-12-22    date exe    T  18 55 03    date exe    Y m d  H M S  Any text  20091222 185503  Any text  date exe   Text   y  m  d-any text- H  M  Text  09 12 22-any text-18 55  Command  date exe    m- d     H  M  S      07-22  18 55 03    The date time information from a reference file  date exe -r c  file txt   The timestamp of file txt is   Y- m- d  H  M  S   Using it in a CMD script to get year  month  day  time information   for  f  tokens 1 2 3 4 5 6  delims      i in   C  Tools etc date exe     y   m   d   H   M   S    do set yy   i amp  set mo   j amp  set dd   k amp  set hh   l amp  set mm   m amp  set ss   n   Using it in a CMD script to get a timestamp in any required format   for  f  tokens      i in   C  Tools etc date exe     y-  m-  d   H   M   S    do set timestamp   i   Extracting the date time information from any reference file   for  f  tokens 1 2 3 4 5 6  delims      i in   C  Tools etc date exe -r file txt     y   m   d   H   M   S    do set yy   i amp  set mo   j amp  set dd   k amp  set hh   l amp  set mm   m amp  set ss   n   Adding to a file its date time information   for  f  tokens      i in   C  Tools etc date exe -r file txt     y-  m-  d   H  M  S    do ren file txt file   i txt   date exe is part of the free GNU tools which need no installation   NOTE  Copying date exe into any directory which is in the search path may cause other scripts to fail that use the Windows built-in date command

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Regional independent solution generating the ISO date format   rem save the existing format definition for  f  skip 2 tokens 3    a in   reg query  HKCU Control Panel International   v sShortDate   do set FORMAT   a rem set ISO specific format definition reg add  HKCU Control Panel International   v sShortDate  t REG SZ  f  d yyyy-MM-dd 1 gt nul  rem query the date in the ISO specific format  set ISODATE  DATE  rem restore previous format definition reg add  HKCU Control Panel International   v sShortDate  t REG SZ  f  d  FORMAT  1 gt nul    What could still be optimized  Other processes might get confused if using the date format in the short period while it is modified  So parsing the output according to the existing format string could be  safer  - but will be more complicated

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Just use this line   PowerShell -Command  get-date

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Short answer         Start - Run   type   cmd  c  powershell get-date -format    yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss    clip       click into target media  Ctrl   V to paste the result    Long answer       echo off        START USAGE                                                                           SET THE NICETIME         SET NICETIME BOO        CALL GetNiceTime cmd          ECHO NICETIME IS  NICETIME          echo nice time is  NICETIME         END USAGE                                                                          echo set hhmmsss        this is Regional settings dependant so tweak this according your current settings     for  f  tokens 1-3 delims      a in   echo  time    do set hhmmsss   a  b  c        DEBUG ECHO hhmmsss IS  hhmmsss        DEBUG PAUSE     echo  yyyymmdd             this is Regional settings dependant so tweak this according your current settings     for  f  tokens 1-3 delims      D in   echo  DATE    do set  yyyymmdd   F  E  D       DEBUG ECHO yyyymmdd IS  yyyymmdd        DEBUG PAUSE       set NICETIME  yyyymmdd   hhmmsss        DEBUG echo THE NICETIME IS  NICETIME         DEBUG PAUSE

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Given a known locality  for reference in functional form  The ECHOTIMESTAMP call shows how to get the timestamp into a variable  DTS in this example     ECHO off  CALL  ECHOTIMESTAMP GOTO END   TIMESTAMP SETLOCAL  EnableDelayedExpansion     SET DATESTAMP  DATE  10 4 - DATE  4 2 - DATE  7 2      SET TIMESTAMP  TIME  0 2 - TIME  3 2 - TIME  6 2      SET DTS  DATESTAMP   0 - TIMESTAMP   0  ENDLOCAL  amp  SET    1  DTS   GOTO  EOF   ECHOTIMESTAMP SETLOCAL     CALL  TIMESTAMP DTS     ECHO  DTS  ENDLOCAL GOTO  EOF   END  EXIT  b 0   And saved to file  timestamp bat  here s the output

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I had a similar problem  I have an automatic daily download from an FTP server of an encrypted file  I wanted to decrypt the file using gpg  rename the file to the current date  YYYYMMDD format  and drop the decrypted file into a folder for the correct department   I went through several suggestions for renaming the file according to date and was having no luck until I stumbled upon this simple solution   for  f  tokens 1-5 delims       d in    date    do rename  decrypted txt    g-  e-  f txt   It worked perfectly  i e   the filename comes out as  2011-06-14 txt      Source

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I had a similar problem  I have an automatic daily download from an FTP server of an encrypted file  I wanted to decrypt the file using gpg  rename the file to the current date  YYYYMMDD format  and drop the decrypted file into a folder for the correct department   I went through several suggestions for renaming the file according to date and was having no luck until I stumbled upon this simple solution   for  f  tokens 1-5 delims       d in    date    do rename  decrypted txt    g-  e-  f txt   It worked perfectly  i e   the filename comes out as  2011-06-14 txt      Source

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Given a known locality  for reference in functional form  The ECHOTIMESTAMP call shows how to get the timestamp into a variable  DTS in this example     ECHO off  CALL  ECHOTIMESTAMP GOTO END   TIMESTAMP SETLOCAL  EnableDelayedExpansion     SET DATESTAMP  DATE  10 4 - DATE  4 2 - DATE  7 2      SET TIMESTAMP  TIME  0 2 - TIME  3 2 - TIME  6 2      SET DTS  DATESTAMP   0 - TIMESTAMP   0  ENDLOCAL  amp  SET    1  DTS   GOTO  EOF   ECHOTIMESTAMP SETLOCAL     CALL  TIMESTAMP DTS     ECHO  DTS  ENDLOCAL GOTO  EOF   END  EXIT  b 0   And saved to file  timestamp bat  here s the output

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With Windows 7  this code works for me   SET DATE  date  SET YEAR  DATE  0 4  SET MONTH  DATE  5 2  SET DAY  DATE  8 2  ECHO  YEAR  ECHO  MONTH  ECHO  DAY   SET DATE FRM  YEAR - MONTH - DAY   ECHO  DATE FRM

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Please use the following script to get the current day in the command line   echo  Date  0 3 day

[windows] How do I get current date/time on the Windows command line in a suitable format for usage in a file/folder name?

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