Hi, Does someone know how to get seconds from DOS? I'm running on NT 4.0 and using "Time /T"" command gives me the syntax: hh:mm in english format. Therefor i try with "time" command which gives me the exact syntax (ie. french format HH:MM:SS) but it seems not easy to extract what i need ... Thanks for your help.

HH:MM:SS is also the 'BRITISH' format. Why not just use the TIME command?

..., he's probably trying to do something with a batch file.

That's exact. I'd like to get this value into a batch file which create specific files with timestamp like: $FILE_HHMMSS.

AND seconds is THAT Important?

Each file must be created with an extension different. In fact, i try to develop a procedure which should be used throught a telnet session on NT server by different users. This procedure or batch file use user input written in qbasic and each call of these user input is done while launching: qbasic /run $FILE_HHMM...

The following script was written on Win98, and will get the seconds decimals (00-99) to the %RANDOM% variable. I don't know if it works on NT: @echo off echo @PROMPT SET RANDOM=$T$_> %temp%.\$$tmp.bat %comspec% /c %temp%.\$$tmp.bat > %temp%.\$$tmp2.bat rem > %temp%.\$$tmp.bat for %%s in (e10D'0' e10F''3B e112''3B e115''3B w q) do echo %%s>> %temp%.\$$tmp.bat debug.exe %temp%.\$$tmp2.bat < %temp%.\$$tmp.bat > nul call %temp%.\$$tmp2.bat echo SET RANDOM=%%4> %temp%.\$$tmp.bat ::echo SET RANDOM=%%3> %temp%.\$$tmp.bat call %temp%.\$$tmp.bat;%random% for %%d in (tmp.bat tmp2.bat) do if exist %temp%.\$$%%d del %temp%.\$$%%d WATCH OUT FOR LINE WRAPPING! Cut-paste this into a text file and it will be alright. If you really want the SECONDS, not the decimals, uncomment the commented line (get out the "::" on its begin) I hope it works on NT. -- Secret_Doom - Leonardo Pignataro -- secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br