Hi every body, I have an issue, so every day i have to format a floppy and to label it with the current date in the format:YYYYMMDD. I would like to write a batch file to automate that, but I don't know how to read the date in this format and how to assign it to the floppy? Any idea? Thanks Noor(technicalUser)

This should work. Just copy and paste what is between the lines and save it with the .bat extension. I am assuming that your floppy drive is a: if not just make the change. _______________________________________________________ @echo off for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /T') do set year=%%c for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /T') do set month=%%a for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /T') do set day=%%b set temp=%year%%month%%day% label a: %temp% _______________________________________________________ It worked for me, if it doesn't work for you please let me know and I can try to give you another idea. Either way keep me posted because I want to make sure it worked properly. Good luck.

Here's a shorter methoed. set mydate=%date:~10%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2% echo %mydate%

I forgot to mention that the method I showed will work in both Windows and DOS systems. Pat's method, which is probably more common, only works in Windows.

Hi, Fish, yours didn't do anything in w2k cmd. And I think Pat's will only work in 2k~xp with command extensions enabled. Pat, yeah, but, probably not a good idea to alter the %temp% ; that can have, as they say "unintended consequences." Noor, format a: /v:%DATEvar%

C:\testing>ver Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] C:\testing>type noor2000.bat @echo off set mydate=%date:~10%%date:~4,2%%date:~7,2% echo %mydate% C:\testing>noor2000.bat 20040828 C:\testing>

Thank you guys for your help. I tried the method of Fish and Pat. The problem I have when I double click on the script from Windows It didn't work, if I open a Dos windows and then I execute the script from Dos both of them work. Is it normal or I am making a mistake somewhere? Thanks Noor(Technicaluser)