NET \\computer /SET or NET /DOMAIN:domain /SET to synchronize the local computer's time with a remote computer or domain controller.NET HELP TIME for more time synchronization options.DATE and TIME originally were only meant to adjust the date and time after each cold boot of the first generations of PC's, since these old PC's were not equipped with batteries to keep the internal clock going.
NT and OS/2 provide ways to show only the current date or time, without asking you to adjust it.
In NT, TIME /T and DATE /T will display only the current time and date, respectively.
In OS/2 DOS sessions, TIME /N and DATE /N will do the same, though preceded by a statement that the current time/date is set to the values displayed.
In real DOS there's only the hard way to display date and time:
@ECHO OFF VER | TIME > TEMP.BAT ECHO SET TIME=%%3>CURRENT.BAT CALL TEMP.BAT DEL TEMP.BAT DEL CURRENT.BAT ECHO It's %TIME% now
This batch file, as shown here, works only if your DOS version will say something like:
Current time is 10:59:47.47 AM
when executing the TIME command. If your DOS version isn't English you have to change the name of CURRENT.BAT and the number of the parameter (%%3)
Let's use a Dutch DOS version as an example.
VER | TIME will display:
Tijd is nu ingesteld op: 10:59:47.47
So now we'll have to use TIJD.BAT instead of CURRENT.BAT, and %%3 must be changed to %%5 because now, instead of:
Current time is 10:59:47.47 AM
TEMP.BAT will contain a line:
Tijd is nu ingesteld op: 10:59:47.47
Now the third line of our batch file should be:
ECHO SET TIME=%%5>TIJD.BAT
and the sixth line:
DEL TIJD.BAT
The above batch file can be made multi-lingual.
The price we pay is more code and more temporary batch files to create and clean up:
@ECHO OFF REM Temporary batch file common to all DOS versions VER | TIME > TEMP.BAT REM Temporary batch file for English DOS version ECHO SET TIME=%%3>CURRENT.BAT REM Temporary batch file for Dutch DOS version ECHO SET TIME=%%5>TIJD.BAT CALL TEMP.BAT DEL TEMP.BAT DEL CURRENT.BAT DEL TIJD.BAT ECHO It's %TIME% now
| Note: | An added complication is the use of 12 hour AM/PM vs. 24 hour notation. 6:00 PM is 18:00 so we would need to add 12 hours. In most cases that won't be necessary, as you can append the AM or PM to the variable using SET TIME=%%3%%4>CURRENT.BAT |
These batch files set the variable TIME to the time they are executed.
The same tricks work for DATE as well, you only need to make some minor adjustments.
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The PROMPT command has some useful options, like $D and $T, that allow us to store the week day, current date and current time in environment variables, independent of the operating system's language!
The resulting environment variable is language dependent, though.
So I added a routine to remove forward slashes (or any other FOR delimiter) from the DATE variable (which is then stored in the DATE2 variable), allowing the variable to be used in file names.
This technique to remove or replace forward slashes works in all DOS versions up to and including MS-DOS 6.22, PC-DOS 7 and OS/2 Warp 4's DOS box. It will not work in MS-DOS 7.*, which means the %DATE2% variable is useless in MS-DOS 7.*.
However, the %DATE% and %TIME% variables are valid in all DOS versions, including MS-DOS 7.*.
@ECHO OFF :: DateTime.bat :: Set environment variables with current Date, Time and DayOfWeek :: Recursion IF NOT "%3"=="" GOTO SecondTime :: Create temporary batch file > TEMPDTT1.BAT ECHO @PROMPT %0 $D $T :: Do _N_O_T_ replace "COMMAND /C" with CALL in the next line > TEMPDTT2.BAT COMMAND /C TEMPDTT1.BAT TEMPDTT2 :SecondTime DEL TEMPDTT?.BAT SET DOW=%1 SET DATE=%2 SET TIME=%3 :: Remove forward slashes from DATE variable and store result in DATE2 IF EXIST DATE2.BAT DEL DATE2.BAT SET DATE2= :: Parse DATE variable and create temporary batch :: file to recreate DATE without forward slashes >> DATE2.BAT FOR %%A IN (/%DATE%) DO ECHO SET DATE2=%%DATE2%%%%A CALL DATE2.BAT DEL DATE2.BAT
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Check out BatchMan, by Michael Mefford, if you want an easy to use and language independent way to check the system time or date (and much more) in batch files.
| Note: | The way errorlevels are checked in the following batch files require the use of COMMAND.COM as the command interpreter. Running these batch files with CMD.EXE as the command interpreter will fail! |
@ECHO OFF REM Check command line parameter IF NOT [%2]==[] GOTO Syntax IF [%1]==[?] GOTO Syntax IF [%1]==[/?] GOTO Syntax IF [%1]==[-?] GOTO Syntax IF NOT [%1]==[] GOTO Year REM Check if BATCHMAN.COM is available BATCHMAN MONTH IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO Syntax REM If no year specified: get current year as errorlevel offset with -1980 BATCHMAN YEAR REM "Convert" errorlevel to year SET Year=1980 IF ERRORLEVEL 1 SET Year=1981 IF ERRORLEVEL 2 SET Year=1982 IF ERRORLEVEL 3 SET Year=1983 IF ERRORLEVEL 4 SET Year=1984 IF ERRORLEVEL 5 SET Year=1985 IF ERRORLEVEL 6 SET Year=1986 IF ERRORLEVEL 7 SET Year=1987 IF ERRORLEVEL 8 SET Year=1988 IF ERRORLEVEL 9 SET Year=1989 IF ERRORLEVEL 10 SET Year=1990 IF ERRORLEVEL 11 SET Year=1991 IF ERRORLEVEL 12 SET Year=1992 IF ERRORLEVEL 13 SET Year=1993 IF ERRORLEVEL 14 SET Year=1994 IF ERRORLEVEL 15 SET Year=1995 IF ERRORLEVEL 16 SET Year=1996 IF ERRORLEVEL 17 SET Year=1997 IF ERRORLEVEL 18 SET Year=1998 IF ERRORLEVEL 19 SET Year=1999 IF ERRORLEVEL 20 SET Year=2000 IF ERRORLEVEL 21 SET Year=2001 IF ERRORLEVEL 22 SET Year=2002 IF ERRORLEVEL 23 SET Year=2003 IF ERRORLEVEL 24 SET Year=2004 IF ERRORLEVEL 25 SET Year=2005 IF ERRORLEVEL 26 SET Year=2006 IF ERRORLEVEL 27 SET Year=2007 IF ERRORLEVEL 28 SET Year=2008 IF ERRORLEVEL 29 SET Year=2009 IF ERRORLEVEL 30 SET Year=2010 IF ERRORLEVEL 31 SET Year=2011 IF ERRORLEVEL 32 SET Year=2012 IF ERRORLEVEL 33 SET Year=2013 IF ERRORLEVEL 34 SET Year=2014 IF ERRORLEVEL 35 SET Year=2015 IF ERRORLEVEL 36 SET Year=2016 IF ERRORLEVEL 37 SET Year=2017 IF ERRORLEVEL 38 SET Year=2018 IF ERRORLEVEL 39 SET Year=2019 IF ERRORLEVEL 40 SET Year=2020 IF ERRORLEVEL 41 SET Year=2021 IF ERRORLEVEL 42 SET Year=2022 IF ERRORLEVEL 43 SET Year=2023 IF ERRORLEVEL 44 SET Year=2024 IF ERRORLEVEL 45 SET Year=2025 IF ERRORLEVEL 46 SET Year=2026 IF ERRORLEVEL 47 SET Year=2027 IF ERRORLEVEL 48 SET Year=2028 IF ERRORLEVEL 49 SET Year=2029 IF ERRORLEVEL 50 SET Year=2030 IF ERRORLEVEL 51 SET Year=2031 IF ERRORLEVEL 52 SET Year=2032 IF ERRORLEVEL 53 SET Year=2033 IF ERRORLEVEL 54 SET Year=2034 IF ERRORLEVEL 55 SET Year=2035 IF ERRORLEVEL 56 SET Year=2036 IF ERRORLEVEL 57 SET Year=2037 IF ERRORLEVEL 58 SET Year=2038 IF ERRORLEVEL 59 SET Year=2039 IF ERRORLEVEL 60 SET Year=2040 IF ERRORLEVEL 61 SET Year=2041 IF ERRORLEVEL 62 SET Year=2042 IF ERRORLEVEL 63 SET Year=2043 IF ERRORLEVEL 64 SET Year=2044 IF ERRORLEVEL 65 SET Year=2045 IF ERRORLEVEL 66 SET Year=2046 IF ERRORLEVEL 67 SET Year=2047 IF ERRORLEVEL 68 SET Year=2048 IF ERRORLEVEL 69 SET Year=2049 IF ERRORLEVEL 70 SET Year=2050 IF ERRORLEVEL 71 SET Year=2051 IF ERRORLEVEL 72 SET Year=2052 IF ERRORLEVEL 73 SET Year=2053 IF ERRORLEVEL 74 SET Year=2054 IF ERRORLEVEL 75 SET Year=2055 IF ERRORLEVEL 76 SET Year=2056 IF ERRORLEVEL 77 SET Year=2057 IF ERRORLEVEL 78 SET Year=2058 IF ERRORLEVEL 79 SET Year=2059 IF ERRORLEVEL 80 SET Year=2060 IF ERRORLEVEL 81 SET Year=2061 IF ERRORLEVEL 82 SET Year=2062 IF ERRORLEVEL 83 SET Year=2063 IF ERRORLEVEL 84 SET Year=2064 IF ERRORLEVEL 85 SET Year=2065 IF ERRORLEVEL 86 SET Year=2066 IF ERRORLEVEL 87 SET Year=2067 IF ERRORLEVEL 88 SET Year=2068 IF ERRORLEVEL 89 SET Year=2069 IF ERRORLEVEL 90 SET Year=2070 IF ERRORLEVEL 91 SET Year=2071 IF ERRORLEVEL 92 SET Year=2072 IF ERRORLEVEL 93 SET Year=2073 IF ERRORLEVEL 94 SET Year=2074 IF ERRORLEVEL 95 SET Year=2075 IF ERRORLEVEL 96 SET Year=2076 IF ERRORLEVEL 97 SET Year=2077 IF ERRORLEVEL 98 SET Year=2078 IF ERRORLEVEL 99 SET Year=2079 IF ERRORLEVEL 100 SET Year=2080 IF ERRORLEVEL 101 SET Year=2081 IF ERRORLEVEL 102 SET Year=2082 IF ERRORLEVEL 103 SET Year=2083 IF ERRORLEVEL 104 SET Year=2084 IF ERRORLEVEL 105 SET Year=2085 IF ERRORLEVEL 106 SET Year=2086 IF ERRORLEVEL 107 SET Year=2087 IF ERRORLEVEL 108 SET Year=2088 IF ERRORLEVEL 109 SET Year=2089 IF ERRORLEVEL 110 SET Year=2090 IF ERRORLEVEL 111 SET Year=2091 IF ERRORLEVEL 112 SET Year=2092 IF ERRORLEVEL 113 SET Year=2093 IF ERRORLEVEL 114 SET Year=2094 IF ERRORLEVEL 115 SET Year=2095 IF ERRORLEVEL 116 SET Year=2096 IF ERRORLEVEL 117 SET Year=2097 IF ERRORLEVEL 118 SET Year=2098 IF ERRORLEVEL 119 SET Year=2099 IF ERRORLEVEL 120 SET Year=2100 IF ERRORLEVEL 121 SET Year=2101 IF ERRORLEVEL 122 SET Year=2102 IF ERRORLEVEL 123 SET Year=2103 IF ERRORLEVEL 124 SET Year=2104 IF ERRORLEVEL 125 SET Year=2105 IF ERRORLEVEL 126 SET Year=2106 IF ERRORLEVEL 127 SET Year=2107 IF ERRORLEVEL 128 SET Year=2108 IF ERRORLEVEL 129 SET Year=2109 IF ERRORLEVEL 130 SET Year=2110 IF ERRORLEVEL 131 SET Year=2111 IF ERRORLEVEL 132 SET Year=2112 IF ERRORLEVEL 133 SET Year=2113 IF ERRORLEVEL 134 SET Year=2114 IF ERRORLEVEL 135 SET Year=2115 IF ERRORLEVEL 136 SET Year=2116 IF ERRORLEVEL 137 SET Year=2117 IF ERRORLEVEL 138 SET Year=2118 IF ERRORLEVEL 139 SET Year=2119 IF ERRORLEVEL 140 SET Year=2120 IF ERRORLEVEL 141 SET Year=2121 IF ERRORLEVEL 142 SET Year=2122 IF ERRORLEVEL 143 SET Year=2123 IF ERRORLEVEL 144 SET Year=2124 IF ERRORLEVEL 145 SET Year=2125 IF ERRORLEVEL 146 SET Year=2126 IF ERRORLEVEL 147 SET Year=2127 IF ERRORLEVEL 148 SET Year=2128 IF ERRORLEVEL 149 SET Year=2129 IF ERRORLEVEL 150 SET Year=2130 IF ERRORLEVEL 151 SET Year=2131 IF ERRORLEVEL 152 SET Year=2132 IF ERRORLEVEL 153 SET Year=2133 IF ERRORLEVEL 154 SET Year=2134 IF ERRORLEVEL 155 SET Year=2135 IF ERRORLEVEL 156 SET Year=2136 IF ERRORLEVEL 157 SET Year=2137 IF ERRORLEVEL 158 SET Year=2138 IF ERRORLEVEL 159 SET Year=2139 IF ERRORLEVEL 160 SET Year=2140 IF ERRORLEVEL 161 SET Year=2141 IF ERRORLEVEL 162 SET Year=2142 IF ERRORLEVEL 163 SET Year=2143 IF ERRORLEVEL 164 SET Year=2144 IF ERRORLEVEL 165 SET Year=2145 IF ERRORLEVEL 166 SET Year=2146 IF ERRORLEVEL 167 SET Year=2147 IF ERRORLEVEL 168 SET Year=2148 IF ERRORLEVEL 169 SET Year=2149 IF ERRORLEVEL 170 SET Year=2150 IF ERRORLEVEL 171 SET Year=2151 IF ERRORLEVEL 172 SET Year=2152 IF ERRORLEVEL 173 SET Year=2153 IF ERRORLEVEL 174 SET Year=2154 IF ERRORLEVEL 175 SET Year=2155 IF ERRORLEVEL 176 SET Year=2156 IF ERRORLEVEL 177 SET Year=2157 IF ERRORLEVEL 178 SET Year=2158 IF ERRORLEVEL 179 SET Year=2159 IF ERRORLEVEL 180 SET Year=2160 IF ERRORLEVEL 181 SET Year=2161 IF ERRORLEVEL 182 SET Year=2162 IF ERRORLEVEL 183 SET Year=2163 IF ERRORLEVEL 184 SET Year=2164 IF ERRORLEVEL 185 SET Year=2165 IF ERRORLEVEL 186 SET Year=2166 IF ERRORLEVEL 187 SET Year=2167 IF ERRORLEVEL 188 SET Year=2168 IF ERRORLEVEL 189 SET Year=2169 IF ERRORLEVEL 190 SET Year=2170 IF ERRORLEVEL 191 SET Year=2171 IF ERRORLEVEL 192 SET Year=2172 IF ERRORLEVEL 193 SET Year=2173 IF ERRORLEVEL 194 SET Year=2174 IF ERRORLEVEL 195 SET Year=2175 IF ERRORLEVEL 196 SET Year=2176 IF ERRORLEVEL 197 SET Year=2177 IF ERRORLEVEL 198 SET Year=2178 IF ERRORLEVEL 199 SET Year=2179 GOTO LeapYear :Year REM Reset LY for leap years FOR %%A IN (%1) DO SET Year=%%A :LeapYear SET LY=is NOT FOR %%A IN (1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016) DO IF %Year%==%%A SET LY=IS FOR %%A IN (2020 2024 2028 2032 2036 2040 2044 2048 2052 2056) DO IF %Year%==%%A SET LY=IS FOR %%A IN (2060 2064 2068 2072 2076 2080 2084 2088 2092 2096) DO IF %Year%==%%A SET LY=IS REM 2100 is NOT a leap year FOR %%A IN (2104 2108 2112 2116 2120 2124 2128 2132 2136 2140) DO IF %Year%==%%A SET LY=IS FOR %%A IN (2144 2148 2152 2156 2160 2164 2168 2172 2176) DO IF %Year%==%%A SET LY=IS REM Set variable LeapYear true or false SET LeapYear=0 IF "%LY%"=="IS" SET LeapYear=1 REM Display the result ECHO %Year% %LY% a leap year REM Done GOTO End :Syntax ECHO. ECHO LeapYear.bat, Version 2.00 for DOS ECHO Check if the specified or current year is a leap year ECHO. ECHO Usage: LEAPYEAR [ year ] ECHO. ECHO Where: "year" is a number from 1980 .. 2179 ECHO Default is the current year ECHO. ECHO Returns: Screen output plus environment variable %%LeapYear%% ECHO. ECHO This batch file uses BATCHMAN by Michael Mefford to retrieve the current year ECHO. ECHO Written by Rob van der Woude ECHO http://www.robvanderwoude.com :End REM Clean up temporary variables SET Year= SET LY=
@ECHO OFF IF NOT "%1"=="" GOTO Syntax :: Use BATCHMAN to retrieve day BATCHMAN DAY :: Errorlevel 0 means BATCHMAN was not found IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO NotFound FOR %%A IN (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %%A SET DD=0%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 1%%A SET DD=1%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 2%%A SET DD=2%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 3%%A SET DD=3%%A :: Use BATCHMAN to retrieve month BATCHMAN MONTH FOR %%A IN (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %%A SET MM=0%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 1%%A SET MM=1%%A :: Use BATCHMAN to retrieve year BATCHMAN YEAR FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %%A SET YYYY=198%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 1%%A SET YYYY=199%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 2%%A SET YYYY=200%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 3%%A SET YYYY=201%%A :: Store in variable and clean up temporary variables SET SortDate=%YYYY%%MM%%DD% SET YYYY= SET MM= SET DD= :: Display the result ECHO. ECHO SortDate = %SortDate% GOTO End :Syntax ECHO. ECHO SortDate.bat, Version 1.00 for MS-DOS ECHO Display the current date in YYYYMMDD format ECHO. ECHO Usage: SORTDATE ECHO. ECHO This batch file uses BATCHMAN, a utility by Michael Mefford ECHO. ECHO Written by Rob van der Woude ECHO http://www.robvanderwoude.com :End
@ECHO OFF IF NOT "%1"=="" GOTO Syntax :: Use BATCHMAN to retrieve day BATCHMAN DAY :: Errorlevel 0 means BATCHMAN was not found IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO NotFound :: Use BATCHMAN to retrieve hour BATCHMAN HOUR FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %%A SET HH=0%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 1%%A SET HH=1%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 2%%A SET HH=2%%A :: Use BATCHMAN to retrieve minutes BATCHMAN MINUTE FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %%A SET MM=0%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 1%%A SET MM=1%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 2%%A SET MM=2%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 3%%A SET MM=3%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 4%%A SET MM=4%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 5%%A SET MM=5%%A :: Use BATCHMAN to retrieve seconds BATCHMAN SECOND FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %%A SET SS=0%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 1%%A SET SS=1%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 2%%A SET SS=2%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 3%%A SET SS=3%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 4%%A SET SS=4%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL 5%%A SET SS=5%%A :: Store in variable and clean up temporary variables SET SortTime=%HH%%MM%%SS% SET HH= SET MM= :: Display the result ECHO. ECHO SortTime = %SortTime% GOTO End :Syntax ECHO. ECHO SortTime.bat, Version 1.00 for MS-DOS ECHO Display the current time in HHmmss format ECHO. ECHO Usage: SORTTIME ECHO. ECHO This batch file uses BATCHMAN, a utility by Michael Mefford ECHO. ECHO Written by Rob van der Woude ECHO http://www.robvanderwoude.com :End
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Check out ErrTime, by Phil Money, Advantig Engineering & Design, if you want an easy to use and language independent way to check the system time or date in batch files.
Version 1.4 has just (July 4, 2004) been released to the Public Domain.
This version contains executables for DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Novell Netware.
@ECHO OFF REM Use ERRTIME.EXE by Phil Money, Advantig LLC, REM for a sorted date (or time) in DOS batch files REM ERRTIME 1.4 is avalable at REM http://www.advantig.com/files/ErrTime14.zip ERRTIME -y > NUL FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %%A0 SET ERR10=%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %ERR10%%%A SET ERR1=%%A SET YEAR=%ERR10%%ERR1% ERRTIME -m > NUL FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %%A0 SET ERR10=%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %ERR10%%%A SET ERR1=%%A SET MONTH=%ERR10%%ERR1% ERRTIME -d > NUL FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %%A0 SET ERR10=%%A FOR %%A IN (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) DO IF ERRORLEVEL %ERR10%%%A SET ERR1=%%A SET DAY=%ERR10%%ERR1% ECHO. ECHO %YEAR%%MONTH%%DAY% PAUSE
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