Re: Working with dates ...

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On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:14:01 -0800, Cameron Young <CameronYoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Script type ... NT batch scripting.
OS's ... Win2K, Win2K3

Am using the following script code to get the current date...
for /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do (
set DayOfWeek=%%i
set Day=%%j
set Month=%%k
set Year=%%l
set Date=%%l-%%k-%%j
)

I'd like to be able to acquire the previous day's date, but not sure how I
can accomplish this in a batch script environment.

Can anyone assist in my query?
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Cheers,
Cameron

The above script doesn't work on W2K3 because the date /t command doesn't return the day name.

To get todays date, regardless of NT version:

Call UnivDate
See tip 4835 » The Universal Date Parser, modified to also work with Windows XP.
in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com

see tip 8181 » How can I insure that a year, month, and day contain 4,2, and 2 digits, respectively?

See tip 8293 » How can I return the date that is plus or minus n days from today?

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
.

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