how to code in dos 'if current time GEQ (=)

Rediwed September 14, 2010 at 07:24:57

This will be very hard becaus Cmd thinks the last 2 numbers are a trigger

viddywell September 14, 2010 at 12:01:14

I'm thinking I'm missing something in the time logic here... but as far as I can think it at this point I'd assume this should work... (changing HH:MM to be your 24hr format time) for /f "delims=: tokens=1,2" %%a in ("%time%") do set stime=%%a:%%b if %stime% GEQ HH:MM echo Success

Razor2.3 September 14, 2010 at 22:55:53

Be warned: CMD will do a text comparison, so 2:01 AM will be > 12:01 PM. If you must do date/time math, pick a language that supports it, like VBScript or JScript.

viddywell September 15, 2010 at 16:12:40

What if we change to: for /f "delims=: tokens=1,2" %%a in ("%time%") do set stime=%%a%%b if %stime% GEQ HHMM echo Success I assume that removing the colon from the two numbers should make it a straight number compare vs. a text compare (though I am also operating under the assumption that %time% always returns the time in 24hr format)?