bat file that gets current date in MMDDYY format and saves it in a variable for later use in the file

Question

i am making a bat file that does a few tasks for me but i need to get the current date in MMDDYY format.

I know this will return the 4 digit year but how can i make it show 12 instead of 2012? for /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /T') do set year=%%c

possible duplicate: [windows-batch-formatted-date-into-variable](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10945572/windows-batch-formatted-date-into-variable) — wmz, Aug 01 '12 at 17:26

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 01 '12 at 21:04

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set MMDDYY=%DATE:~4,2%%DATE:~7,2%%DATE:~12,2%

check the return from echo %DATE% to see if you need to make adjustment for locale

answered Aug 01 '12 at 21:04

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bat file that gets current date in MMDDYY format and saves it in a variable for later use in the file

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