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Creating a folder/file name based on a date time stamp in NT Shell Script (Batch)

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for /F "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do set datetimefolder=%%k%%i%%j

for /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=: " %%i in ('time /t') do set datetimefolder=%datetimefolder%_%%i%%j%%k

echo DateTimeFolder=%datetimefolder%

will output something like:

20060516_1216PM

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I prefer:    for /F "tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6,7* delims=.:^/^ " %%i in ("%date%.%time%") do (        SET _Timestamp=%%l%%j%%k%%m%%n%%o        REM pad hour if single digit        if "%%m" neq "" if %%m LSS 10 SET _Timestamp=%%l%%j%%k0%%m%%n%%o) -adrian hains