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DATE
Display or change the date
syntax to display the date DATE /T to set the system date DATE or DATE <date_today>
A typical output from DATE /T is "Mon 11/09/2000" but
this is dependent on the country code.
The date formats for different country codes are as follows:
Country or language CountryCode Date format Time format
United States 001 01/23/1997 5:35:00.00p
Czechoslovakia 042 23.01.1997 17:35:00 France 033 23.01.1997 17:35:00
Germany 049 23.01.1997 17:35:00
Latin America 003 23/01/1997 5:35:00.00p International English 061 23/01/1997 17:35:00.00
Portugal 351 23-01-1997 17:35:00
Finland 358 23.1.1997 17.35.00
Switzerland 041 23.01.97 17 35.00 Norway 047 23.01.97 17:35:00
Belgium 032 23/01/97 17:35:00 Brazil 055 23/01/97 17:35:00
Italy 039 23/01/97 17.35.00 United Kingdom 044 23/01/97 17:35:00.00
Denmark 045 23-01-97 17.35.00
Netherlands 031 23-01-97 17:35:00
Spain 034 3/12/98 17:35:00
Hungary 036 1997.01.23 17:35:00
Canadian-French 002 1997-01-23 17:35:00 Poland 048 1997-01-23 17:35:00
Sweden 046 1997-01-23 17.35.00
Date Formatting
In Control Panel Regional settings a short date STYLE can be set. This can be
used to change the date separator, the order (e.g. dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy)
and the number of characters used to display days and months.
Date Format information in the registry
The Country Code is a setting in the registry:
This can be read using REG.exe as follows
FOR /F "TOKENS=3 delims= " %%G IN ('REG QUERY "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\iCountry"') DO (SET v_country=%%G)
The date separator is also a registry setting
This can be read using REG.exe as follows
FOR /F "TOKENS=3 delims= " %%G IN ('REG QUERY "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\sDate"') DO SET v_date_sep=%%G
If Command Extensions are disabled DATE
will not support the /T switch
"Carpe Diem - Seize the day" - Horace
Related Commands:
NOW - Display Message with Current Date and Time
NET TIME - Display the Date in US Format (mm-dd-yy)
REG - Read, Set or Delete registry keys and values
TIME - Display or set the system time
TOUCH - Change file timestamps
Equivalent Linux BASH commands:
cal - Display a calendar
date - Display or change the date
time - Measure Program Resource Use
times - User and system times
touch - Change file timestamps