Hi, I have a batchfile that stores DATE elements in separate variables: FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=/- " %%a in ('date/T') do set CDATE=%%c%%b%%a Running this line gives me following results on the server: %%a= 19 %%b= Jan %%c= 06 %CDATE%= 06Jan19 The server is restricted to it's current regional and date/time settings due to application requirements. I would like to have %CDATE% show a different result. Desired result: %CDATE%= 20060119 I can change the year by applying: FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3,4 delims=/- " %%a in ('date/T') do set CDATE=20%%c%%b%%a My problem is: can I somehow convert the month characters (Jan-Feb-Mar-Apr-May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct-Nov-Dec) into their respective number? Any help would be highly appreciated!

There must be some elegant solution; but I don't know what it is. So I'd just brute-force it; like this: if %m%==jan set m=01 etc If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

If you're willing to use something other than a batch file, I can show you how easy this is to do in Perl. $cdate = strftime("%Y%m%d", localtime);

Yeah, I have implemented Mechanix's suggestion. Unfortunately, PERL isn't an option, as that would have been much slicker! Thanks!