Batch File Need to Format Date

In Windows XP there's a dynamic environment variable called %date% that returns the current date. Your batch file is overwriting it... so you'll need to do this from a new command prompt session before your date code had been run yet

echo %date:~6,4%-%date:~3,2%-%date:~0,2%

Keep in mind though, both the DATE command and the %DATE% environment variable return the date formatted based on the current regional settings. It will only work for your particular set of regional settings. Mine were the default Canadian regional settings. I think USA uses the same date format.

BTW you can use set the command

SET thedate=%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%
set thedate=% =%

to replace all spaces with nothing
Likewise you can do

set thedate=%/=-%
to replace / with -

but you have a solution above.  Be careful as Frosty555 says though as date formats can be differnet even between different OS's, e.g.  Thu 15/02/2008 or just 15/02/2008

Steve

I looked at the solution from gragon-it but that is not what i am looking for.

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=%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%
When I run this it will give me 2008 -02 -17  If I take the "-" out of the folowing:  =%YYYY%-%MM%-%DD%  I will get 2008 02 17  by placing the hyphen between the two %% signs I can get the hyphen in but there is also a space.  I need it to look like 2008-02-17