hi, i have found codes which makes a date in mmddyy format here it is : for /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do ( set my_month=%%i set /A my_day=%%j:~2-1 set my_year=%%k ) set my_year=%my_year:~2,2% set X=%my_month%%my_day%%my_year% but the main problem of the above code is it only shows exact date from 10 to 31st of the month. its showing dates from 1 to 9 like 09108 09208 09308 <--- as i need to make it work like 090108 090208 090208 what do i need to add or edit in this code? K2™ System/Network Engineer

Can you not use? echo. %date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-4,4% Please tell me

The date /t command is affected by how you set your date settings in windows. Go to the command line and type date /t then come back and post the format your using. By this I mean does it show an abbreviated day before the date? Do single digit days and months have leading zero's? I already understand you use month first, followed by day then year.

hey date /t command shows me Fri 09/05/2008 and Can you not use? echo. %date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-4,4% Please tell me I need to make a folder using that date variable dear so i cant use echo K2™ System/Network Engineer

Ever so slightly modified.... for /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do ( set my_month=%%i set my_day=%%j set my_year=%%k ) set my_year=%my_year:~2,2% set X=%my_month%%my_day%%my_year% [edit] NoIdea: in this case it would actually be %date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-2%

OK at the risk of proving really annoying and living up to my appellation. >YourOutputFolder_%date:~-10,2%.%date:~-7,2%.%date:~-2%.txt Judago For me the script produces (obviously its my mistake) D:\>for /F "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %i in ('date /t') do ( set my_month=%i set my_day=%j set my_year=%k ) D:\>( set my_month=09 set my_day=2008 set my_year= ) D:\>set my_year= D:\>set X=092008 Is this because of ddmmyy and not mmddyy

NoIdea, That's exactly why I asked to see what the output of date /t would be. To answer your question, Yes and no, I also use day first month second and year last. For some reason some variations like d/mm/yyyy give an abbreviated day of the week at the start e.g fri. Using dd/mm/yyyy on the otherhand doesn't give the day. If your using XP go to the control panel and open "regional and language settings" their should be a drop down box with <language>(<country>). Beside it their is a "Customise" button clicking it opens a dialog/settings box, Their is a date tab on this box. Once in this tab the short date is the setting of interest. So of course the batch is settings independent. As it stands to be correct it needs the abbreviated day of the week, forward slashes as separators, a 4 digit year and to be month first day second and year last. Unfortunately the %date% variable has almost exactly the same problem, so it can't be used to avoid the pitfalls of having the date set the way you like it.