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The below script is a slight modification of this post and depends on your machines language settings (run DATE /T on your command line). P.D.: There are side effects on using powershell, it changes CMD window size and font (and let them changed after exit), also sometimes it takes some seconds to run such simple command.Īs retrieving yesterdays date involves various boundaries (month, years, leap years) it quickly becomes slightly more complex than one thinks. It is a meta-charater that tells next character must not be interpreted.Īnd if you need datetime inside a variable on a batch, see this: OFFįor /f "delims=" %%a in ('powershell -Command ::Now.ToString(\"yyyyMMdd_hhmmss\"^)') do MyVariable=%%a Importat note: The ^ character is t avoid for see the ) as final, same as \ does this " inside powershell, etc. CMD file you must double the % as this: for /f "delims=" %%a in ('powershell -Command ::Now.ToString(\"yyyyMMdd_hhmmss\"^)') do DateTime is: %%a

That enables files listings to be in time order. Timestamps should always have the most significant date component first (year) and the least component (seconds) last.

) it formats the output of ::Now in the format yyyyMMdd_hhmmssĪnd if you want it in a bacth file you can use the trick of for /f "delims=", see an example: for /f "delims=" %a in ('powershell -Command ::Now.ToString(\"yyyyMMdd_hhmmss\"^)') do DateTime is: %a The timestamp includes year, month, day, hour, minute, and second, in that order. See last part, it is the format you want, so you can get it with the format you want. It is an example that outputs actual Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute and Second. Just write your formula in Excel to wrap the DIR command around your specific file names. DIR /TW Filename.txt find 'Filename.txt' /I > Result.txt. It just shows the file name on the right instead of on the left.

Take care not make cultural assumptions about the users chosen date or time format. If you can use powershell, why not do it with this simple one line: powershell -Command ::Now.ToString(\"yyyyMMdd_hhmmss\") You can get most of the way there with a simple DIR command. The dates and time above are only default settings, in the Control Panel users can change the date and time format including the date separator, 12/24 hour time and leading/trailing characters.