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

Question

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

Combine Powershell into a batch file and use the meta variables to assign each:

@echo off
for /f "tokens=1-6 delims=-" %%a in ('PowerShell -Command "& {Get-Date -format "yyyy-MM-dd-HH-mm-ss"}"') do (
    echo year: %%a
    echo month: %%b
    echo day: %%c
    echo hour: %%d
    echo minute: %%e
    echo second: %%f
)

You can also change the the format if you prefer name of the month MMM or MMMM and 12 hour to 24 hour formats hh or HH