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MS-DOS Date format on different computers

When i do this on my computer
echo %date%
it shows
Wed 10/05/2011

I am trying to extract month/date/year from that date

Now, i am tryign to run batch program and I want to extract date in form of MMDDYYYY from that date value.

So I do this -
set DATALOADDATE=%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%%date:~10,4%

My question is will the format of date change on other machine, is the date format - Wed 10/05/2011 dependent on the Operating system or the way user has set to? Or it will be like this on all the machines?

thanks a lot..

Paul MacDonald

The date format may change based on regional settings, but I would expect it to be the same on every machine otherwise.

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Paul MacDonald

In the Solution for your web site you should be able to right-click on the project and Add Service Reference. This should give you access to the events exposed by the service.

Paul MacDonald

Sorry...ignore that^

at999

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vvk/paulmacd,
so what should i do to get MMDDYYYY format of current date in DOS ?

thanks

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at999

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Will the date format change say if we move from windows server 2003 to windows server 2008? my machine is in US...

at999

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also, i tried the sample in that link - http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/956/windows-batch-file-bat-to-get-current-date-in-mmddyyyy-format/

but it did not work .... it gave date value - %mm%%dd%%yyyy% and not 10062011

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at999

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how do I call VBS in an MS-DOS batch file? and get that date? thanks a lot

Qlemo

I've showed you that - my code snippet uses that technique. It echoes commands to a .VBS file, runs that file with cscript (the console version of Windows Scripting Host), and processes the output. The .VBS file is then deleted.

at999

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thanks a lot that solved my problem...