How do I get the day month and year from a Windows cmd.exe script?

Question

How do I get the current day month and year from inside a Windows cmd script? I need to get each value into a separate variable.

Answer 1

echo %Date:~7,2% gets current day

7 is starting position 2 number of digits to display

echo %Date:~7,2% gets current day

echo %Date:~4,2% gets current month

echo %Date:~10,4% gets current year