Hello and thank you for reading.

I want to write short script to upate files and creating a backup before overwriting.
My problem now is to rename the file with a timestamp before i overwrite is with the new one.

At the moment i'm getting the timestamp this way:



Unfortnuatly this doesnt work on every PC - i guess the reason is that wmic is not supported in every Windows Versions.
(I want to use the script on WIN NT, XP, 7, 10)

I was thinking about the %date% variable but also here the content is different from version to version - but the date numbers are inside.

Now my question is: is it possible to just filter out the numbers in the %date% variable

Here i got 2 different date contents from Win10 and Win7:

Win 10: 05.10.2018
Win 7: Fri 10/05/2018

The Win 10 content would work with the rename step: filename_%date%.exe ->filename_05.10.2018.exe

With the Win7 i got problems due the "/" symbols.

If i can get in my example just 05102018 out of the %date% that would be great - is it possible?

This post was edited by Phiro on Oct 5 2018 02:21am

Hey, i found this out on google. give it a try
your timestamp is supposed to be in the "fullstamp" variable

lmk if it worked as expected

hello thank you for your answer but i'm looking for another solution without the wmic command - since wmic is not possible on Win NT

use "ver" instead of wmic ?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ver_(command)

Here is a list with given replies compared to the OS Works from windows 1.0 to 10 =)

You can format %date% yes. More details here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1192476/format-date-and-time-in-a-windows-batch-script

To get it formatted as 13102018:



I have to say though, I didn't realize how crap and inconsistent the time handling is in batch.