how to print previous date

[!k]

On Russian XP

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Z:\4\2>date
Текущая дата: 10.08.2010
Введите новую дату (дд-мм-гг):

[aGerman]

You will find a lot of informations into the registry.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International
Mostly the format is like in sShortDate. Sometimes the day of week is prepended, but it's simple to find out.

Regards
aGerman

[!k]

Method to determine the day-month-year-day of the week on any 2000/XP/2003 with any regional settings on any language version of the OS.

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@echo off
echo.>"%TEMP%\~.ddf"
makecab /D RptFileName="%TEMP%\~.rpt" /D InfFileName="%TEMP%\~.inf" -f "%TEMP%\~.ddf">nul
for /f "tokens=4,5,7" %%a in ('type "%TEMP%\~.rpt"') do if not defined current-date set "current-date=%%c-%%a-%%b"
echo %current-date%
del /q "%TEMP%\~.*"
pause

Who has the opportunity, please check on Vista/7.