datestamp help

[Salmon Trout]

Are you sure, as you showed before, that there is a leading zero in the file date?

What does this show?

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@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set foldername="Your folder"
REM get file date of all files in folder
for /f "delims=" %%A in ( ' dir /b /a-d /od %foldername% ' ) do (
set fdate=%%~tA
echo !fdate!
)
pause


[x3g]

no hidden files. No file dated today.

[Salmon Trout]

Are you sure, as you showed before, that there is a leading zero in the file date?

What does this show?

Code: [Select]

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set foldername="Your folder"
REM get file date of all files in folder
for /f "delims=" %%A in ( ' dir /b /a-d /od %foldername% ' ) do (
set fdate=%%~tA
echo !fdate!
)
pause


[x3g]

windows does not display the leading 0 but DOS does.

[Salmon Trout]

so what does my test script show?

[x3g]

ECHO is off.
09/22/2010 09:46 AM
09/22/2010 01:11 PM
Press any key to continue . . .

that's weird cause these files are dated 9/21 if I do a DIR


C:\test\1>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is E40F-A8C4

 Directory of C:\test\1

09/21/2010  05:04 PM    <DIR>          .
09/21/2010  05:04 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/21/2010  05:05 PM               359 CurrDate.bat
09/21/2010  05:05 PM                17 notepad.bat
09/21/2010  05:02 PM               716 test.txt
               3 File(s)          1,092 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  116,920,819,712 bytes free

C:\test\1>

[x3g]

Salmon,
I think I've found the culprit. I made a copy of a file dated 9/21 and updated it in another folder but somehow the original file which is dated 9/21 is still linked to the copy and the copied file is dated 9/22. Even though they are in 2 separate locations the script still picks up the date of the copy.
I created a whole new folder and copied 2 files from 9/21 and the script works like a charm.
thank you very much for your help. You're a hero.

[Salmon Trout]

possibly the script is picking up the creation date and DIR is picking up the modified date i.e.when they were moved.

try adding the /tC or /tA or /tW switches (only one at a time) both in the script and with DIR at the prompt

eg DIR /tC

or else...

1. when did you last do a disk check?

2. Is this a network folder?

[Salmon Trout]

Our posts crossed... glad it's OK now... I'm here if it goes wrong...