Am trying to format date in cmd windows but it is not coming out nicely.
echo %date% +"%d-%B-%Y". How should I go about it?
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You might be interested in the wmic command which can return the local date/time in a locale-independent manner.
@echo off Title wmic command which can return the local date/time in a locale-independent manner @for /f "skip=1" %%x in ('wmic os get localdatetime') do if not defined MyDate set MyDate=%%x set today=%MyDate:~0,4%-%MyDate:~4,2%-%MyDate:~6,2% echo Today : %today% set "year=%MyDate:~2,2%" set "month=%MyDate:~4,2%" set "day=%MyDate:~6,2%" echo %day%-%month%-%year% pause I belive this is what you want:
set year=%date:~10,4% set month=%date:~4,2% set day=%date:~7,2% set dateformatted=%month%-%day%-%year% echo %dateformatted% Answer from here. Have fun!
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