How to get date in BAT file

Question

I need to get today date in Window *.bat file. After it I would like to get day, month and year. How can I do this?
I can\'t use PowerShell

Answer 1

You get and format like this

for /f "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%i in ("%date%") do (
     set dow=%%i
     set month=%%j
     set day=%%k
     set year=%%l
)
set datestr=%month%_%day%_%year%
echo datestr is %datestr%