I am not a programmer by any chance, and I am looking for a batch file to identify dirs/files that have been modified within the last month. The following is supposed to copy files/dirs that have been changed within the last day. How can I change this to be used in XP, and just identify dirs/files that have been changed within the last month? No need to copy them. Thanks for your help!! @echo off setlocal for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%f in ('date /t') do ( set mm=%%f set dd=%%g set yyyy=%%h ) REM Substract your 1 day here set /A dd=1%dd% - 100 - 1 set /A mm=1%mm% - 100 + 0 if /I %dd% GTR 30 goto DONE set /A mm=%mm% - 1 if /I %mm% GTR 0 goto ADJUSTDAY set /A mm=12 set /A yyyy=%yyyy% - 1 :ADJUSTDAY if %mm%==1 goto SET31 if %mm%==2 goto LEAPCHK if %mm%==3 goto SET31 if %mm%==4 goto SET30 if %mm%==5 goto SET31 if %mm%==6 goto SET30 if %mm%==7 goto SET31 if %mm%==8 goto SET31 if %mm%==9 goto SET30 if %mm%==10 goto SET31 if %mm%==11 goto SET30 if %mm%==12 goto SET31 goto ERROR :SET31 set /A dd=31 + %dd% goto DONE :SET30 set /A dd=30 + %dd% goto DONE :LEAPCHK set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 4 if not %tt%==0 goto SET28 set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 100 if not %tt%==0 goto SET29 set /A tt=%yyyy% %% 400 if %tt%==0 goto SET29 :SET28 set /A dd=28 + %dd% goto DONE :SET29 set /A dd=29 + %dd% :DONE echo xcopy c:\source c:\dest /E /Y /D:%mm%-%dd%-%yyyy% :EXIT

LOL You can peruse several hundred threads here on the general subjuct of 'date math' in batch. None has a happy ending. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2