Display current date and time

[drgt]

Hi
How to echo current date and time on the same line?

Thanks

[penpen]

This should help you:

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echo %date% %time%

penpen

[drgt]

How about the day too like
Sun 2016-10-30 17:55:42.35 or
Sunday 2016-10-30 17:55:42.35

[ShadowThief]

Oh geez, you've got one of those locales where %date% doesn't show the day of the week for some reason.

[drgt]

yep, I am reading on this right now...

[aGerman]

WMIC should always be available nowadays.

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for %%i in ("0=Sun" "1=Mon" "2=Tue" "3=Wed" "4=Thu" "5=Fri" "6=Sat") do set "wd%%~i"
for /f %%i in ('WMIC OS GET LocalDateTime /value') do for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%j in ("%%i") do set "dt=%%j"
for /f %%i in ('WMIC PATH Win32_LocalTime GET DayOfWeek /value') do for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%j in ("%%i") do (
  call set "dt=%%wd%%j%% %dt:~,4%-%dt:~4,2%-%dt:~6,2% %dt:~8,2%:%dt:~10,2%:%dt:~12,5%")

echo %dt%

Steffen

[drgt]

Great job Steffen!
Thanks!

Since I am clueless on the FOR usage in batch and of course "regurgitating" is "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day", should you have the time and want to, please explain this code to me in order to "teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" !


Thanks again

[aGerman]

I see your point. Did you ever read a tutorial about FOR loops in batch? If not please do this as soon as you have time. Understanding how loops work is the key for writing good code in any language.

Steffen

[drgt]

Any links you propose would be appreciated.

Thanks again

[ShadowThief]

http://ss64.com/nt/for.html
http://ss64.com/nt/for_cmd.html
http://ss64.com/nt/for_f.html

[drgt]

Great!
Take care and thanks again.