Hi, I am facing some problem with Date and i don't know why. I have script which is on P drive where date is '03/11/2009' and my machine date format is 'Tue 03/11/2009' . When I run script which is on P drive it takes Date format which is on my machine. first of all why? how can make script on P drive flexible so who ever run it it will take date format from P drive. Thanks in advance.

P is a mapped drive so it is as if on your computer. I think you need //machine/share instead. Might pm nails or other script person to be sure. I think mechanix2go is good to and others. If not repost in coding maybe. Playing to the angels Les Paul (1915-2009)

P is mapped drive to server which is other machine. My all script are at P drive and just i am accessing those script from my machine and run those but those script pickup date format from my machine. I want to force date from of P drive so that anyone will run that script from their machine will not face date format issue.

Following code will cut the date in day , month and year. It handle date in US and UK date format. @echo off&SETLOCAL :: This will return date into environment vars :: Works on any NT/2K/XP machine independent of regional date settings :: 20 March 2002 FOR /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/-. " %%G IN ('date /t') DO (call :s_fixdate %%G %%H %%I %%J) goto :s_print_the_date :s_fixdate if "%1:~0,1%" GTR "9" shift FOR /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%G IN ('echo.^|date') DO ( set %%G=%1&set %%H=%2&set %%I=%3) goto :eof :s_print_the_date echo Month:[%mm%] Day:[%dd%] Year:[%yy%] ENDLOCAL&SET mm=%mm%&SET dd=%dd%&SET yy=%yy% The useful bit there is the (dd-mm-yy), on a machine with different regional settings it may appear as (mm-dd-yy) The first FOR command returns the 3 numeric parts of the date e.g. 14 04 2000 The second FOR command returns the 3 text descriptions e.g. dd mm yy Then the line set %%G=%1&set %%H=%2&set %%I=%3 creates the 3 variables and sets them = numeric values Effectively: set dd=14&set mm=04&set yy=2000 On a machine with different regional settings this might become: set mm=04&set dd=14&set yy=2000