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

Locale-independent one liner to get any date format you like. I use it to generate archive names. Back quote option is needed because PowerShell command line is using single quotes.

:: Get date in yyyyMMdd_HHmm format to use with file name.
FOR /f "usebackq" %%i IN (`PowerShell ^(Get-Date^).ToString^('yyyy-MM-dd'^)`) DO SET DTime=%%i

:: Get formatted yesterday date.
FOR /f "usebackq" %%i IN (`PowerShell ^(Get-Date^).AddDays^(-1^).ToString^('yyyy-MM-dd'^)`) DO SET DTime=%%i

:: Show file name with the date.
echo Archive.%DTime%.zip