How do I get current date/time on the Windows command line in a suitable format for usage in a file/folder name?

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Update: Now that it\'s 2016 I\'d use PowerShell for this unless there\'s a really compelling backwards-compatible reason for it, particularly because of the regional setting

Answer 1

And here is a similar batch-file for the time portion.

:: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/203090/how-to-get-current-datetime-on-windows-command-line-in-a-suitable-format-for-usi
:: Works on any NT/2k machine independent of regional time settings
::
:: Gets the time in ISO 8601 24-hour format
::
:: Note that %time% gets you fractions of seconds, and time /t doesn't, but gets you AM/PM if your locale supports that.
:: Since ISO 8601 does not care about AM/PM, we use %time%
::
    @ECHO off
    SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
    for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=:,.-/ " %%i in ('echo %time%') do (
      set 'hh'=%%i
      set 'mm'=%%j
      set 'ss'=%%k
      set 'ff'=%%l)
    ENDLOCAL & SET v_Hour=%'hh'%& SET v_Minute=%'mm'%& SET v_Second=%'ss'%& SET v_Fraction=%'ff'%

    ECHO Now is Hour: [%V_Hour%] Minute: [%V_Minute%] Second: [%v_Second%] Fraction: [%v_Fraction%]
    set timestring=%V_Hour%%V_Minute%%v_Second%.%v_Fraction%
    echo %timestring%

    :EOF

--jeroen