how do i set time and date as variable in a batch file?

Question

is it possible to set time /t and date /t as a VAR to use as

@echo off
set TIJD=time /T
set DATUM=date /T
echo %TIJD% %DATUM%
pause

John Castleman · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-17 20:52:08Z

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built-in env vars: %TIME% %DATE%

echo %DATE% %TIME%

if you need to further manipulate the values, you can assign these to other variables, to which you can do other operations:

setlocal
set D=%DATE%
set T=%TIME%
echo %D:~10,4%%D:~4,2%%D:~7,2%%T:~,2%%T:~3,2%%T:~6,2%

The output of echo above will be locale dependent, but for me yields, e.g., 20150117144508.

answered Jan 17, 2015 at 20:43

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Serenity · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-18 00:34:03Z

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set  TimeStr=%Time::= %
Echo TimeStr

takes out ilegal characters from Time (replacing the colon with a space).

answered Jan 18, 2015 at 0:34

Serenity

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illegal only, if you want to use it as part of a filename. (You also should mention %date% to make the answer complete)