Comments on: Create a date and time stamp in your batch files

By: Derek Morin

Derek Morin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:21:08 +0000

Awesome code Bewc!! That is really fantastic and you obviously put a lot of effort into it.

In case others hit an error:

I hit error with using this code, but it turned out the that double quote and single quote characters didn’t paste well from the website, and I just needed to change them on the two “for” loop lines.

I also added @echo off at the top of the batch file to just see the output.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:26:04 +0000

This was a great, simple solution. And thanks to other posters, who added the code to get the Hours, Minutes, Seconds.

By: Smari

Smari — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:17:55 +0000

Thanks a lot Steve. that was very helpful.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:53:50 +0000

Create a filename with Date and Time stamp, cleanly.

SET CurrentDate=%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-10,2%
SET CurrentTIme=%time:~-11,2%%time:~-8,2%%time:~-5,2%

echo c:\%CurrentDate%_T%CurrentTime%.csv

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:09:26 +0000

Hi All!!!
Thanks for ALL the GREAT ideas!
I wanted to know how I can get the timestamp of a FILE to echo in a batch, rather than just the system time.
I am FTPing a file once a minute from a camera server, and sometimes the server hangs and doesn’t update the image, so the time stamp doesn’t change.
I wanted to be able to see the image’s timestamp displayed while my batch is running.
Any ideas? (I am using a simple command (DOS) window and a batch file that displays all FTP activity, EXCEPT the file’s timestamp).
Thannks!!!

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:38:53 +0000

Glad to help Aidan. Thanks for taking the time to comment – Steve

By: Aidan

Aidan — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:48:33 +0000

I hate windows so thanks to all above for doing the hard work me! Very usefu, thanks again.

Aidan

By: brijesh

brijesh — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:47:26 +0000

Hey guys,

could someone help me in displaying current timestamp.

i tried
%date:~-4,4%/%date:~-7,2%/%date:~-10,2% %time:~-11,2%:%time:~-8,2%:%time:~-5,2%

but its quite long and putting it in a variable then displaying the variable show the time when i set that variable.

please let me know how should i use that variable to show the current date and time

thanks

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:25:14 +0000

It seems to me that I have seen quite a similar example in the setup package of Dr.Batcher ( http://www.drbatcher.com ). This is an utility to create batch files, and it’s extremely useful.

By: Tom Summers

Tom Summers — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:49:28 +0000

Thanks Steve, we’ve been fighting the time thing all morning. This helps alot. Again thanks