Windows batch store date in variable

This alternate version makes the findstr program do the heavy lifting, and then saves the fourteenth word. But this version will get fooled by the line Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address. Comments are closed. I wrote a book Ground rules Disclaimers and such My necktie's Twitter.

Reading the output of a command into a batch file variable Raymond. July 31st, Find centralized, trusted content and collaborate around the technologies you use most. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I have the command below to count all directories that that follow the pattern 20??????

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How to store the result of a command expression in a variable using bat scripts? Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 4 months ago.

Active 3 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 99k times. Possible duplicate of How to get current datetime on Windows command line, in a suitable format for using in a filename? You can replace empty spaces on your datetimef variable, and put 0's instead.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Nasir Grewal 3 2 2 bronze badges. As note for someone who will come here from Google like me : This is locale dependent, so it may require tweaks to work on non-english Windows! All this can be done in just 2 lines using ordinary string replacement: stackoverflow.

Show 2 more comments. There should be a way to mark this as the solution — Rado. The lorax The lorax. On Windows Server and on Windows 7, this gave me the correct string. Much more elegant than what I've constructed in the past, so thank you!

Here is what it gives me in Windows 7 with russian locale. Current time is T, but the script prints: " Andreas Andreas 4, 8 8 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 51 51 bronze badges. Best answer since it explains how to print the variables instead of forcing some substring that can be different for a lot of people. How do you get the UTC-timezone as well, e. Getting the timezone information on the commandline involves other tools.

Lombard G. Lombard 3, 1 1 gold badge 27 27 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. OK, substitusion in variables. Now - how to substitute a colon :? Colons aren't valid in filenames. Can you substitute 0 for space, delete the colons, and truncate to 6 characters thus deleting the decimal part in a single statement? It's not that big of deal if it takes two or three lines.

I'm just curious. Not that I know. Please follow-up if you find one! Peter Mortensen This is a terrible solution. If it fails then a global setting is permanently changed.

It also introduces race conditions with other applications. Jesse Jesse 1, 18 18 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Just running date without any arguments prints the current date and then prompts to enter a new date if the user wants to reset it.

The below command works for the same. Similar to date command, we have the command time which lets us find the current system time. Some examples below. As you can see, the command prints the time in different formats. Sir I want to get all outdated drivers in our pc through command prompt please help and reply Thanks.

I want the last week date from the current date :-This is the script,I am using for the getting the current date. Create a file called realtimeClock. This is the contents of realtimeClock.

Excellent guideline. I need to get the files based on current date. How ya the script look like.