Monday, March 21, 2016

DateTime Stamp in Windows cmd and dos

This will will create a datetime stamp for a log file in Windows.
 
 
1. Create a cmd or bat file and copy the below text into the file and save.
 

 
@------------------ 
 
@Echo Off

for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=:" %%d in ("%time%") do set var=%date:~10,4%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2%-%%d%%e

set datetimestr=%var: =0%

set logfile=LogFile-%datetimestr%.txt

echo %logfile%
 
 
 
Thanks to this post this worked for me. 
 
Ref: http://superuser.com/questions/315984/how-to-get-the-date-in-a-batch-file-in-a-predictable-format/316153
 
 

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