Re: Is NT 2000 Dos Batch Timestamp sysntax different ?

On 9 Oct 2002 17:21:37 -0700, rs_arwar_at_hotmail.com (Rauf Sarwar) wrote:

>This works on Win2K. Have not tested it on WinNT.
>
>Use %%VAR for batch file. Use %VAR for command line.
>
>For Date_Timestamp
>set time_stamp=.
>FOR /F "tokens=1-3 delims= " %%A in ("%date%_%time%") do set time_stamp=%%B%%C
>FOR /F "tokens=1-3 delims=/" %%A in ("%time_stamp%") do set time_stamp=%%A%%B%%C
>FOR /F "tokens=1-3 delims=:" %%A in ("%time_stamp%") do set time_stamp=%%A%%B%%C
>FOR /F "tokens=1-2 delims=." %%A in ("%time_stamp%") do set time_stamp=%%A%%B

WinNT does not include the %date% or %time% variables here's something that will work under both NT and 2000 All lines should be indented 3 chars...

   @echo off&SETLOCAL

      :: This will return date into environment vars
      :: Works on any NT/2K/XP machine independent of regional date
settings
      :: 20 March 2002

   FOR /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/-. " %%G IN ('date /t') DO (call :s_fixdate %%G %%H %%I %%J)

   goto :s_print_the_date    

   :s_fixdate
   if "%1:~0,1%" GTR "9" shift
   FOR /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%G IN ('echo.^|date') DO (

       set %%G=%1&set %%H=%2&set %%I=%3)    goto :eof

   :s_print_the_date
   echo Month:[%mm%] Day:[%dd%] Year:[%yy%]    ENDLOCAL&SET mm=%mm%&SET dd=%dd%&SET yy=%yy%

And to answer the original subject line

    Is NT 2000 Dos Batch Timestamp syntax different ? YES the NT command prompt is different to the 2000 command prompt which in turn is *very* different to the DOS operating system.

http://www.ss64.demon.co.uk/ntsyntax/GetDate.txt

-
Simon Sheppard
http://www.ss64.com
- Received on Thu Oct 10 2002 - 16:01:16 CDT