Is it possible to specify date format (maybe as paramater or some similar way) which batch command date returns or it only depends on windows regional settings? What I would like is to somehow specify date format when i call date so that the batch script can extract day, month and year and save them in variables. The problem is that some machines return dd/MM/yyyy and some MM/dd/yyyy so in one case day and month would be switched. Some also use dots as separators. Can I somehow tell date to return for example MM/dd/yyyy so I can differentiate which is day and which is month?
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I am not sure if these will definitely resolve your issue, but please take a look at Date and Time functions on link http://commandline.co.uk/lib/treeview/index.php.
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c:\> WMIC Path Win32_LocalTime Get
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The command
for /f %%a in ('wmic path win32_localtime get /format:list ^| findstr "="') do (set %%a)
Creates the following environment variables:
Day, DayOfWeek, Hour, Milliseconds, Minute, Month, Quarter, Second, WeekInMonth, Year
Which can be accessed as usual: %Year%
To see the values use wmic path win32_localtime
note: The values can be blank. On my desktop, Milliseconds has no value.
note 2: If you use this in the command line, replace %% with %
Inspiration for this answer Setting a windows batch file variable to the day of the week
