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How to get date in BAT file

I need to get today date in Window *.bat file. After it I would like to get day, month and year. How can I do this?
I can't use PowerShell

Solution

  • You get and format like this

    for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i in ("%date%") do (
     set dow=%%i
     set month=%%j
     set day=%%k
     set year=%%l
)
set datestr=%month%_%day%_%year%
echo datestr is %datestr%

    Note: Above only works on US locale. It assumes the output of echo %date% looks like this: Thu 02/13/21. If you have different Windows locale settings, you will need to modify the script based on your configuration.