%DATE% Batch Variable not working in Windows 10

Question

%DATE% Batch Variable not working in Windows 10

I created a batch file:

@ECHO OFF
C:
MKDIR C:\BACKUP
CD C:\BACKUP
ECHO backing up, plz wait...
MKDIR bkup-%date%
cd bkup-%date%

But I get an error saying: "The syntax of the command is incorrect." error.

Please help me, thanks.

Answer 1

Solved!, I found a post:

set datetimef=%date:~-4%_%date:~3,2%_%date:~0,2%_%time:~0,2%_%time:~3,2%_%time:~6,2%
echo datetimef

This solve my issue, thanks.

Answer 2

rem only WINDOWS 10

CLS
@echo off


ECHO %DATE%

ECHO.

ECHO %TIME%

ECHO.

set mydate=%date:~11,4%-%date:~8,2%-%date:~5,2%

echo %mydate%

PAUSE

EXIT

Answer 3

On my system, the format of the date when you used %date% on Windows 8 was MM/dd/yyyy (eg 02/23/2016 ) but after upgrading to Windows 10 it displayed as Day MM/dd/yy (eg Tue 02/23/16 ) instead. This caused / characters in folder paths in my script which made it fail. In the Start > Settings > Time & Language > Date & time settings, I noticed that the format for Short date had changed to the M/d/yy option. When I reset the option to MM/dd/yyyy the format for %date% returned to MM/dd/yyyy and my program which grabbed the date parts based on that format worked properly again.

If you want to set a custom date format, you can go to Region > Additional settings... > Date tab and set a custom format for Short date which will then be used for the command prompt %date% printout.

Answer 4

I had the same problem. I solved it using %%B instead of %date% (Leonardo's answer didn't work for me on windows 7). Example

Answer 5

使用字符替换：%date:/=-%