there is a system variable %DATE% that i have used in win 7. I can't find it.

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 20:40:52 -0800, T wrote:

On 3/5/19 7:58 PM, wrote:
there is a system variable %DATE% that i have used in win 7. it does not show up in command SET that
i can see.

It should be in the parent environment set......I think.

At a cmdline prompt you can type "echo %DATE%"

Where could it be?


Hi Jack,

Are you confusing the date program with a variable?

date /t
Tue 03/05/2019

There is one for time too

-T


date /?
Displays or sets the date.

DATE [/T | date]

Type DATE without parameters to display the current date setting
and a prompt for a new one. Press ENTER to keep the same date.

If Command Extensions are enabled the DATE command supports
the /T switch which tells the command to just output the
current date, without prompting for a new date.

"command extensions" was new to me. Thanks
..

On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:00:11 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 05 Mar 2019 23:44:58 -0500, Paul wrote:

wrote:
there is a system variable %DATE% that i have used in win 7. it does not show up in command SET that
i can see.

It should be in the parent environment set......I think.

At a cmdline prompt you can type "echo %DATE%"

Where could it be?

Near the bottom. No idea what it means.

https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-variables.html

"If Command Extensions are disabled, the following
dynamic variables will be not accessible:

%CD% %DATE% %TIME% %RANDOM% %ERRORLEVEL% %CMDEXTVERSION%
%CMDCMDLINE% %HIGHESTNUMANODENUMBER%
"

https://ss64.com/nt/cmd.html

cnd.exe /E:ON Extensions Enabled (Default)

Paul

BINGO! Thanks, Paul. That explains why it was not in the environment output from cmd SET but can be
echoed as if it were an environment variable.

Several years ago i used it in a batch file to mankipulate the string and make it a filename insertable
format. I just dumped the slashes and day prefix since slash is not allowable in a filename. So
"Tues 03/05/2019 became "03052019"

this is the batch file that i wrote which i have found very useful to keep up with file currency and
creartion date of archive files:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

echo %date%

set mth=%Date:~4,2%
set day=%Date:~7,2%
set yr=%Date:~10,4%

echo %mth%%day%%yr%

set shortdate=%mth%%day%%yr%

echo %shortdate%

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

of course i could reduce the output but i like to have an idea of progress at certain points and the
final outcome...... :-)

Thanks for the ideas. I like the output formatted with dashes or dots.

echo %mth%-%day%-%yr%
03-06-2019

echo %mth%.%day%.%yr%
03.06.2019


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Char Jackson