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DateTimeBox, Version 1.12.1
Batch tool to present a Date/Time Picker dialog and return the selected
date and/or time in the specified format
Usage: DATETIMEBOX [ "title" ] [ "datetime" ] [ options ]
Where: "title" is the optional caption in the title bar
(default: DateTimeBox, Version 1.12.1)
"datetime" is the optional initial date/time for the dialog
in "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm" format (default: now)
options /D display and return Date only (default: date and time)
/T display and return Time only (default: date and time)
/I24 Ignore AM/PM in Input on systems with 24-hour format
/O24 append AM/PM to Output on systems with 24-hour format
/FT:"file" use File Timestamp of specified file
for the dialog's initial date/time
/DD:dateformat Date Display format (GUI)
/DO:dateformat Date Output string format
/TD:timeformat Time Display format (GUI)
/TO:timeformat Time Output string format
/DTO:datetimeformat Date and Time Output string format
/DE:yyyy-MM-dd Earliest Date allowed
/DL:yyyy-MM-dd Latest Date allowed
/DMAX:numberofdays MAXimum Date allowed, relative to
today, in days (negative number for
a date in the past)
/DMIN:numberofdays MINimum Date allowed, relative to
today, in days (negative number for
a date in the past)
/H:height window Height (default: 135,
minimum: 135, maximum: screen height)
/I:index use Icon at index from shell32.dll
/L[:captions] Localize or customize button captions
(e.g. /L:"OK=Why Not?;Cancel=Never!")
/W:width window Width (default: 220,
minimum: 220, maximum: screen width)
Example: Display date/time in default format, output in yyyyMMddHHmmssfff
format (year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds),
selected date between today and 90 days in the future:
DATETIMEBOX "When?" /DTO:yyyyMMddHHmmssfff /DMIN:0 /DMAX:90
Notes: Available custom date and time formats can be found on MSDN at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4.aspx
Note that by default AM/PM time formats ("tt" or "t") cannot be
used on computers with a 24-hour time format. To prevent error
messages, use /I24 to ignore "tt" or "t" (AM/PM) in specified input
and/or output format, and /O24 to append AM/PM to the string on
systems with 24-hour time format.
If specified, the initial date/time must be in "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm"
or "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" format; but with /D "yyyy-MM-dd" format is
accepted, and with /T "HH:mm" and "HH:mm:ss" formats are accepted.
If specified without captions, switch /L forces localized button
captions (e.g. "Cancel" button caption is "Annuleren" on Dutch
systems); if only a single custom caption is specified, the other
one is localized (e.g. with /L:"OK=Gaan" on Dutch systems, "OK"
button caption is "Gaan", "Cancel" button caption is "Annuleren").
The selected date and/or time are written to Standard Out if "OK"
is clicked, otherwise an empty string is returned.
Switches /D, /T and /DTO are mutually exclusive.
Return code 0 for "OK", 1 for (command line) errors, 2 for "Cancel".
Credits: On-the-fly form based on code by Gorkem Gencay on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17546909
Code to retrieve localized button captions by Martin Stoeckli:
http://martinstoeckli.ch/csharp/csharp.html#windows_text_resources
Code to extract icons from Shell32.dll by Thomas Levesque:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6873026
Written by Rob van der Woude
http://www.robvanderwoude.com
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