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

You can use simple variable syntax, here is an example:

@echo off
set month=%date:~0,2%
set day=%date:~3,2%
set year=%date:~6,4%
echo The current month is %month%
echo The current day is %day%
echo The current year is %year%
pause >nul

Another option is the for command, again here is my example:

@echo off
for /f "delims=/ tokens=1-3" %%a in ("%date%") do (
set month=%%a
set day=%%b
set year=%%c
)
echo The current month is %month%
echo The current day is %day%
echo The current year is %year%
pause >nul

Answer 2

powershell Set-Date -Da (Get-Date -Y 1980 -Mon 11 -Day 17)