directory name=date and hour?

[mumin]

Hi

Newbie, its late and I'm tired. Need help.
In a batch file: I wanna make a directory with the name = "date and hour" (yyyy-mm-dd-hour). For example:

2009-02-01-04

Don't know how to get the hour in a variable (with the date).

In xp pro.

[BatchRocks]

Hmm...

This spits out the date and time:

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@echo off
time /t >> T.txt
date /t >> T.txt
exit
It makes it into a new file, named T.txt.

[Dusty]

Mumin - Welcome to the CH forums.

Try this:

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@echo off
cls
set datime=%date%-%time:~0,2%

echo %datime%

Good luck

[GuruGary]

Manipulating the date and time environment variables is dependent on your Windows regional settings ... but for the U.S. English default settings for Windows XP, you can use:

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md "%date:~-4%-%date:~-10,2%-%date:~-7,2%-%time:~0,2%"
And I guess you would want to substitute the space with a 0 (when the hour is less than 10) like:

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set DateHr=%date:~-4%-%date:~-10,2%-%date:~-7,2%-%time:~0,2%
md "%DateHr: =0%"

[mumin]

Thanks all, that did the trick. Nice response. It's a batch file to make sorting and stuff easier/quicker managing photos from my camera.