Always choose a method that fits you the best. You will not make it wrong even if you still using another method described in my other post. The returned value is always in the same format and with time in the 24-hour format.Įven better, you can use this precision in milliseconds to make a very precise action logging or even execution performance for your script. You don’t need to care about regional settings and the variation in date or time formats. You can run it on any Windows platform, from Windows XP/2003 onward and the result will be the same. I used the following code in my example: set CurrMon=%token10:~0,4%-%token10:~4,2% You can copy substring from the token10 variable to another variable. GMT_offset = +60 minutes (GMT+1 or Central European Time Zone).When I executed my demo script, it displayed the value of the variable token10 and the customised value for the current year and month.Īs you can see, the WMIC command will always return the complete current date and time in format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.milliseconds+GMT_Offset_in_minutes. Keep in mind that those variables (%i, %j) used in the for loop inside the batch files must have one more % – i.e. This name token10 is completely arbitrary. We’re comparing if a specific text named LocalDateTime is assigned to the variable %i and then we will assign the value of the second variable %j to our variable named token10. Therefore, our command will be: for /f "usebackq tokens=1,2 delims=,=- " %%i in (`wmic os get LocalDateTime /value`) do %%i=LocalDateTime ( I already explained here in details this process. Additionally, we need to parse this one line to extract the value itself. Its output will be: C:\>wmic os get LocalDateTime /valueĪs you can see, this command will write a few lines on the screen, but only one contains valuable data. The main command is wmic os get LocalDateTime /value. This trick is similar to reading the chassis serial number or Windows platform. We will use the well know command wmic to read the OS parameters. Here’s the mighty trick to read both current date and time in the universal format. This method is fine, although the returned values depend on the regional settings.
Usually, we will use two variables (%date% and %time%) in the batch file to return the current date or time values.
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