Microsoft brain-damage of the day

[Ted Roche]

On Nov 29, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Kjel Anderson wrote:

> Is that the new Powershell syntax? That is god-awful. Wow. Makes  
> perl look pretty.
>
> Kjel

Yeah, that's classic DOS/CMD. If you want YYYY-MM-DD, it's as simple as

FOR /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%i IN ('date /t') DO SET DATE=%%k-%%i-%%j

I use it all the time when making dated files.

Ted Roche
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