Batch command date and time in file name

Question

I am compressing files using WinZip on the command line. Since we archive on a daily basis, I am trying to add date and time to these files so that a new one is auto generat

Answer 1

Another solution:

for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%I in ('wmic os get localdatetime /format:list') do set datetime=%%I

It will give you (independent of locale settings!):

  20130802203023.304000+120
( YYYYMMDDhhmmss.+/-  )

From here, it is easy:

set datetime=%datetime:~0,8%-%datetime:~8,6%
20130802-203023

For Logan's request for the same outputformat for the "date-time modified" of a file:

for %%F in (test.txt) do set file=%%~fF
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%I in ('wmic datafile where name^="%file:\=\\%" get lastmodified /format:list') do set datetime=%%I
echo %datetime%

It is a bit more complicated, because it works only with full paths, wmic expects the backslashes to be doubled and the = has to be escaped (the first one. The second one is protected by surrounding quotes).