Here’s a simple script that will give you today’s date in numeric format in three variables. This has a bunch of uses, but I use it when I need to audit when a script was last run. The script has been tested under Windows XP x86 and Windows 7 x64. You may need to swap the varMM and varDD variables if you are using a version of Windows other than the U.S. version.
@ECHO OFF :: Formatting the date into a YYYYMMDD format and setting it to the variable, varTodaysDate SET varYYYY=%DATE:~10,4% SET varMM=%DATE:~4,2% SET varDD=%DATE:~7,2% SET varTodaysDate=%varYYYY%%varMM%%varDD% ECHO %varTodaysDate%
